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Celastrus violensis
Celastrus violensis E.W. Berry Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., 193(E): 87. Apr 1941
- Name
- Celastrus violensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Celastrus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Berry E. W.
- Publication
- Additions to the Wilcox flora from Kentucky and Texas [1941/4]
- Journal
- Professional Papers / United States Geological Survey
- Volume
- 193
- Issue
- E
- Page number
- 87
- Year
- 1941
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Location
- Viola, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM PAL 313957
- Diagnosis
- Leaves small, ovate in outline with a stout petiole, a broad ultimately decurrent base, and acute tip. Margin with serrulations widely spaced by interspersed shallow-curved sinuses. Length, about 2.5 centimeters;
maximum width, about 1.7 centimeters. Midvein relatively stout. Secondaries, about 5 pairs, diverging from the midvein at angles of about 45°, irregularly spaced, camptodrome.
