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Euryites
Genus Euryites Doweld Geophytology, 54(2): 127. 9 Nov 2024
- Name
- Euryites
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Doweld A. B.
- Publication
- Palaeoflora Europaea: Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram
Europaeam spectantes III [2024/11]
- Journal
- Geophytology
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 127
- Year
- 2024
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Ternstroemiaceae
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Type
- Euryites floersheimensis
- Diagnosis
- Leaves lanceolate to narrow elliptic, petiolate, apex acute, base narrowly
cuneate, margin subentire to glandular crenulate, venation semicraspedodromous, midrib thin, secondaries steep, widely spaced, bent along margin, sending abmedial side veinlets into teeth. Texture coriaceous, adaxial cuticle thinner, granulate to slightly striate, ordinary cells
polygonal-lobate, anticlines undulate, with slight thickenings in sinuses, abaxial cuticle thick, strongly striate to wrinkled all over intercostal
arcas, ordinary cells lobate-polygonal, anticlines strongly, partially finely undulate. Stomata widely spaced, anisocytic-cyclocytic, guard cell pairs
elliptic, rarely actinocytic with radial striation, solitary star-like heavily cutinized trichome bases.
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