Berchemia

Niccolini, Gabriele, Martinetto, Edoardo, Lanini, Benedetta, Menichetti, Elena, Fusco, Fabio, Hakobyan, Elen & Bertini, Adele, 2022, Late Messinian Flora From The Post-Evaporitic Deposits Of The Piedmont Basin (Northwest Italy), Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 189-216 : 200

Genus Berchemia NECK. ex DC., 1825 nom. cons.

Berchemia multinervis (A.BRAUN) HEER, 1857 Pl. 3, Fig. 7

M a t e r i a l. Remains of an elliptic leaf, divided into two parts before burial, with delicate and dense tertiary venation (rhamnoid) almost perpendicular to the primary vein.

R e m a r k s. This leaf type is rare in the Neogene of Italy and was only reported in recent times from the Zanclean flora of Fossano ( Macaluso et al. 2018). The assignment of the leaves to the genus Berchemia is not supported by strong features, however fruit remains morphologically similar to the extant Berchemia fruit occurred at the Fossano locality (Martinetto, pers. observation), but have not been studied in detail yet.