Myrica lignitum (UNGER) SAPORTA

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Sami, Marco, Utescher, Torsten & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2015, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 249-292 : 262

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https://doi.org/ 10.14446/AMNP.2015.249

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scientific name

Myrica lignitum (UNGER) SAPORTA
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Myrica lignitum (UNGER) SAPORTA

Pl. 9, Fig 1–3

Leaves simple, petiolate, elliptic, 33 to 50 mm long and 8 to 10 mm wide, base cuneate with fragmentary petiole, apex obtuse, margin entire, venation brochidodromous, midrib strong, moderate, straight or curved, secondary veins poorly preserved, thinner, looping by margin, alternate, at angles of 40–60°, tertiary veins alternate percurrent, straight to sinuous, venation of the higher orders not visible.

The figured lanceolate entire-margined leaves with long decurrent base are identifiable even without anatomical evidence as Myrica lignitum , a widely distributed element in the European late Palaeogene and Neogene (see Kovar-Eder et al. 2004). The dentate forms were not encountered in the studied material. The specimen figured in Pl. 9, Fig. 3 differs from standard leaves of Myrica lignitum in its denser venation and bluntly acute apex.

M a t e r i a l. Leaf impressions (Monte Tondo MSF1827,

MSF1828, MSF1829).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fagales

Family

Myricaceae

Genus

Myrica

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