Chaneya cf. membranosa (GOEPPERT) MANCHESTER et ZASTAWNIAK

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Sami, Marco, Utescher, Torsten & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2015, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 249-292 : 265

Chaneya cf. membranosa (GOEPPERT) MANCHESTER et ZASTAWNIAK

Pl. 11, Fig. 1

A rounded fruit with a pentamerous presistant corolla (only 4 preserved), 15 mm in diameter, free widely elliptical petals, apices obtuse, 5 primary longitudinal sub-parallel veins radiating from the petal base, straight, secondaries thinner, at acute angles, meeting with adjacent veins, looping at the margin, higher-order veins commonly forming polygonal areoles or loops at the margin.

The fruits have been described from the Neogene deposits of Europe under various genera, such as Getonia ROXBURGH , Porana BURMAN , Hydrangea LINNAEUS (for synonyms see Teodoridis and Kvaček 2005, Manchester and Zastawniak 2007).

M a t e r i a l. Fruit (Monte Tondo MSF1550).