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Aralia reesidei
Aralia reesidei Knowlt. Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., (134): 94. Dec 1924
- Name
- Aralia reesidei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Aralia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Knowlton F. H.
- Publication
- Flora of the Animas Formation [1924/12]
- Journal
- Professional Papers / United States Geological Survey
- Issue
- 134
- Page number
- 94
- Year
- 1924
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Paleocene
- Strat. comment
- Animas Formation
- Location
- Pagosa quadrangle, hill above Talian mine, 5 miles north of Pagosa Junction, Colorado, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM P 36677
- Diagnosis
- Leaf of medium size, coriaceous, palmately strongly three-ribbed from a point above the decurrent base of the blade; five-lobed, the central lobe largest, broadly lanceolate; upper pair of lobes deltoid, short, acute; basal pair of lobes small, acute; margins of lobes remotely few toothed, the teeth low, sharp; three upper lobes with five or six pairs of strong, irregularly spaced secondaries which terminate in the marginal teeth; midrib of the basal lobes arising from the lateral pair of ribs well above the base, with three or four secondaries on the lower side only; nervilles numerous, strong, mainly percurrent.
