Berchemia NECKER ex DE CANDOLLE
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https://doi.org/ 10.14446/AMNP.2015.249 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/176887A2-3D19-FFC0-FC3C-5323FA4AFCC7 |
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Felipe |
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Berchemia NECKER ex DE CANDOLLE |
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Berchemia NECKER ex DE CANDOLLE View in CoL cf. Berchemia sp.
Pl. 6, Fig. 9
Leaf elliptic, 57 mm long and 19 mm wide, base widely cuneate, apex incomplete probably shortly attenuate and blunt, margin entire, venation eucamptodromous, midrib strong, straight, moderate, secondary veins thinner, straight, looping by the margin, alternate, tertiary veins opposite to subopposite percurrent, straight to sinuous, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation poorly preserved, areoles 3- or 4-sided.
The petiolate leaf showing a characteristic rhamnoid eucamptodromous venation is similar to those of the common fossil-species Berchemia multinervis (A. BRAUN) HEER (see Bůžek 1971).
M a t e r i a l. Leaf impression (Monte Tondo MSF1529).
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