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Myrcia cajamarcana
Myrcia cajamarcana E.W. Berry Amer. J. Sci., Series 5, 5(27): 245. Mar 1923
- Name
- Myrcia cajamarcana
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Myrcia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Berry E. W.
- Publication
- Tertiary plants from the Andes of Cajamarca, Peru [1923/3]
- Journal
- American Journal of Science
- Annee/Jahrgang
- Series 5
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 27
- Page number
- 245
- Year
- 1923
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Location
- tuff outcropping near Jadibamba on the trail between Celendin and Yanacancha, Department of Cajamarca, northern Peru (about Lat. 6°45’ South, Long. 78°25’ West)
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Not defined
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM PAL 320701
- Diagnosis
- Leaves of relatively small size, lanceolate in general outline, widest below the middle, tapering upward to the acuminate tip and downward to the acute base. Margins entire, sometimes somewhat irregular. Texture subcoriaceous. Length about 6 cm or slightly more. Maximum width about 1 cm. A small fragment of this species indicates that it may have reached maximum dimensions 50 per cent larger than those given. Midrib relatively thin, but prominent on the under side of the leaf. Secondaries thin but well marked, numerous, subparallel, diverging from the midrib at angles slightly more than 45°, relatively straight, their tips joined by an acrodrome vein parallel with and just inside the margins. Tertiaries indistinct.
