Magnolia liblarensis (KRÄUSEL et WEYLAND) 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

cf. Magnolia liblarensis (KRÄUSEL et WEYLAND) KVAČEK

Pl. 2, Fig. 4–7

Leaves simple, lamina lanceolate or elliptic to ovate, up to 120 mm long and 45 mm wide, base widely cuneate to cuneate, narrowing into fragmentary petiole, apex acuminate and blunt, margin entire, venation brochidodromous with strong midrib and thinner, straight secondary veins looping by margin. Intersecondaries parallel, tertiary veins perpendicular, straight or slightly sinuous, often forked, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation well developed, 4-sided, veinlets lacking.

The leaves are morphologically similar to the anatomically characterized leaves of Magnolia liblarensis from Meleto and Arjuzanx (Fischer and Butzman 2000, pl. 19, figs 2–5; Kvaček et al. 2011). However we can not totally exclude also an affinity to the family Lauraceae . This studied plant material from Tossignano and Monte Tondo was preliminarily assigned to Leguminosites hradekensis (KNOBLOCH et KVAČEK) KVAČEK et TEODORIDIS by Sami and Teodoridis (2013) and Sami et al. (2014).

M a t e r i a l. Leaf impressions (Monte Tondo MSF1756, MSF1757, MSF1758, MSF1759, MSF1760, MSF1761, MSF1762, MSF1763, MSF1764, MSF1765, MSF1766, MSF1767, MSF1768, MSF1769, MSF1770, MSF1771, MSF1772, MSF1773, MSF1774, MSF1775, MSF1776, MSF1777, MSF1778, MSF1779, MSF1780, MSF1781, MSF1782, MSF1783, MSF1784, MSF1785, MSF1786, MSF1787, MSF1788, MSF1789, MSF1790, MSF1791, MSF1792, MSF1793, MSF1794, MSF1795, MSF1796, MSF1797, MSF1798, MSF1799, MSF1800, MSF1801, MSF1802, MSF1803, MSF1804, MSF1805, MSF1806, MSF1807, MSF1808, MSF1809, MSF1810, MSF1811, MSF1812, MSF1813, MSF1814, MSF1815, MSF1816, MSF1817, MSF1818, MSF1819, MSF1820, MSF1821, MSF1822, MSF1823, MSF1824, MSF1825, MSF1826; M. D. IMG_4653, M. D. IMG_4657, M. D. IMG_4658, M. D. IMG_4660; Tossignano MSF220, MSF48, MSF298,

MSF46a). Lauraceae JUSSIEU