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Schima mataschensis
Schima mataschensis Kovar-Eder in Kovar-Eder, Hably Acta Palaeobot., 46(2): 179. 15 Dec 2006
- Name
- Schima mataschensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Schima
- Authors (Name)
- Kovar-Eder J. B.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kovar-Eder J. B.
Hably L.
- Publication
- The flora of Mataschen – a unique plant assemblage from the late Miocene of eastern Styria (Austria) [2006/12]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 179
- Year
- 2006
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Pannonian
- Location
- Mataschen clay pit, 5 km SW of Fehring, district Feldbach, Styria, Austria
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung, Vienna, Austria
- Repository Number
- 2000B0015/222 B
- Diagnosis
- The basal half of a simple leaf, 48 mm long (completed probably more than twice that long), 23 mm (completed at least 25 mm) wide, petiole approximately 15 mm long, basally curved; leaf base acute, leaf margin entire, midvein straight at the base, then slightly bent; one slender secondary vein preserved. Adaxial cuticle: delicate, smooth, poorly preserved (one tiny fragment), faint striation present locally; size of non-modified epidermal cells 22–37 μm (29 μm), anticlines straight, 1–2 μm thick. Abaxial cuticle: medium thick, better preserved than the adaxial cuticle, intensively wrinkled; type of stomatal complexes unclear due to prominent, often concentric wrinkles around the stomata; stomata sunken, guard cells largely overlapped by the surrounding wrinkles, cuticle over the guard cells delicate, epidermal walls of the guard cells not visible, outer stomatal ledges delicate, stomatal aperture oval, 7–12 μm (10 μm) long; anticlines of the non-modifi ed epidermal cells not visible; one-celled, raised, strongly cutinized, polygonal trichome bases scattered in intercostal areas, common upon veins, outer diameter 22–31 μm (25 μm), in intercostal areas surrounded by radial striation, trichomes not preserved.
