Tetraclinis salicornioides (UNGER) KVAČEK

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 : 254

Tetraclinis salicornioides (UNGER) KVAČEK

Pl. 2, Fig. 2–3

Short branch consisting of cladode-like flattened segments (cladodium) of fused flat decussate leaves, up to 17 mm long, leaf base truncate to rounded, apex obtuse with terminal and two lateral incisions, towards apex gradually broadening, 4 fused in a pseudowhorl, innervating with distinct midrib and two lateral thin veins. One seed cone with 4 verticillate unequal scales orbiculate in outline 10 mm in diameter. This record is clearly different from xeromorphic T. brachyodon (BRONGNIART) MAI et WALTHER in the flat leafy segments ( Teodoridis et al. 2015 – this volume).

M a t e r i a l. Foliage (Monte Tondo MSF1983, MSF1984, MSF1985, MSF1986; Tossignano MSF234) and cone (Monte Tondo MSF1987).