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Nothofagofolia
Genus Nothofagofolia Hao-M. Li, Z.-K. Zhou Sci. China, D, 50(10): 1528. 10 Oct 2007
- Name
- Nothofagofolia
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Li H.-M.
Zhou Z.-K.
- Publication
- Fossil nothofagaceous leaves from the Eocene of western Antarctica and their bearing on the origin, dispersal and systematics of Nothofagus [2007/10]
- Journal
- Science in China
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 10
- Page number
- 1528
- Year
- 2007
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Nothofagaceae
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Type
- Nothofagofolia multinervis
- Diagnosis
- Leaves ovate to lanceolate,
symmetrical or asymmetrical, leaf base (slightly cordate)
rounded to cuneate, usually asymmetrical, apex acute to
acuminate; leaf margin compound toothed, apex of the
tooth acute or spinous; pinnate craspedodromous or
pinnate semicraspedodromous venation，primary vein
straight or a little curved, or with repeated changes in
direction near the leaf apex; secondary veins straight or
slightly curved, angles of divergence from the primary
veins by degrees becoming smaller in the direction from
leaf base to apex, in a few cases unchanged; tertiary
veins usually reticulate or percurrent; intersecondary,
opadial, external, counter-external and pectinal veins
present or not.
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