Leguminosae

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 : 258

Leguminosae gen. et sp. indet. 1

Pl. 5, Fig. 2–5

Leaflets shortly petiolulate, middle sized to relatively big, lamina elliptic to ovate, 45 to 110 mm long and 20 to 55 mm wide, base rounded to widely cuneate, petiolule short, apex attenuate to obtuse, margin entire, venation brochidodromous, midrib strong, moderate, straight, secondary veins numerous, thinner, straight or curved, looping, alternate, at angles of 40–60°, intersecondaries rarely obvious, thinner, parallel with secondaries, tertiary veins alternate percurrent, curved to sinuous, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation well developed, areoles 3- or 4-sided, veinlets lacking.

The bigger leaflets are morphologically similar to the leaf material described as cf. Magnolia liblarensis , cf. Laurophyllum pseudoprinceps and Laurophyllum sp. 2 .

M a t e r i a l. Leaflet impressions (Monte Tondo MSF1705; MSF1706, MSF1707, MSF1708, MSF1709, MSF1710, MSF1711, MSF1712, MSF1713, MSF1714, MSF1715, MSF1716, MSF1717, MSF1718, MSF1719, MSF1720, MSF1721, MSF1722, MSF1723, MSF1724, MSF1725, MSF1726, MSF1727, MSF1728, MSF1729, MSF1730, MSF1731, MSF1732; Tossignano MSF284, MSF300, MSF306, MSF320, MSF322, MSF327, MSF330, MSF331, MSF332, MSF333,MSF335, MSF346, MSF610, MSF616, MSF618, MSF619, MSF74, M. D. IMG_4671, M. D. IMG_4662, M. D. IMG_4665, M. D. IMG_4669).