Callistemophyllum bilinicum ETTINGSHAUSEN

Kvaček, Zlatko & Teodoridis, Vasilis, 2011, The Late Eocene Flora Of Kučlín Near Bílina In North Bohemia Revisited, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 67 (3 - 4), pp. 83-144 : 107

Callistemophyllum bilinicum ETTINGSHAUSEN

Pl. 12, figs 4-7

1869 Callistemophyllum bilinicum ETTINGSHAUSEN , p. 53, pl. 6, fig. 7, pl. 7, fig. 1.

1990 Callistemophyllum bilinicum ETTINGSHAUSEN ; Bůžek et al., p. 172, fig. 3.27.

2002 Callistemophyllum bilinicum ETTINGSHAUSEN ; Hably, p. 16, pl. 6, fig. 7.

Leaves simple, linear, entire, parallel-margined. Venation eucamptodromous, secondaries dense, looping with intersecondaries elong the margin.

D i s c u s s i o n: This type of foliage has been known as Callistemophyllum SAPORTA from various Palaeogene sites of Europe but in no case its true nature has been clarified, also at Kučlín. Velenovský (coll. NM) identfied such leaf forms from Kučlín as Ficus multinervis HEER .

M a t e r i a l: BP 55.2314.1, 55.2371.1, NM G 8663.