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Castaneophyllum lonchitiforme
Castaneophyllum lonchitiforme Z. Kvaček, H. Walther Feddes Repert., 121(7-8): 251. 9 Jan 2012
- Name
- Castaneophyllum lonchitiforme
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Castaneophyllum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kvaček Z.
Walther H.
- Publication
- European Tertiary Fagaceae with chinquapin-like foliage and leaf epidermal characteristics [2012/1]
- Journal
- Feddes Repertorium
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 7-8
- Page number
- 251
- Year
- 2012
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Oligocene
- Location
- Lochočice, core Lch 30, České středhoří Mts. volcanic complex, North Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Národní Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
- Repository Number
- G 8565a+b
- Diagnosis
- Leaves simple. Petiole straight to curved, expanded at the base; lamina lanceolate, cuneate at base, long acuminate at apex, symmetrical at base; margin regularly spiny to bluntly serrate except entire-margined base; venation craspedodromous, at base eucamptodromous, secondary veins regularly spaced, simple, rarely forked, single intersecondaries exceptional, texture firm, chartaceous. Anticlines of adaxial epidermis straight to slightly curved, abaxial epidermis slightly cutinized, densely covered by stellate trichomes, glandular trichomes leaving enlarged simple basal cells with narrower, asymmetrically positioned attachment scar, stomata cyclocytic with narrow subsidiary cells.
