Pterocarya paradisiaca (UNGER) ILJINSKAYA

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 : 262-263

Pterocarya paradisiaca (UNGER) ILJINSKAYA

Pl. 9, Fig. 7–8

Incomplete leaflet, oblong 64 mm long and 45 mm wide, apex not preserved, base asymmetric, widely cuneate, margin simple serrate, venation semicraspedodromous, midrib distinct, moderately narrowed, secondary veins distinctly thinner, alternate or subopposite in basal part, originating at almost right angles, tertiary veins alternate, percurrent, straight to sinuous, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation well developed, 3- to 4-sided.

Leaflets of Pterocarya are usually strongly asymmetrical, simple serrate. They can be reliably distinguished from those of Carya on account of the epidermal characteristics ( Kvaček et al. 2008).

M a t e r i a l. Leaflets (Monte Tondo MSF1544;

Tossignano MSF30).