Pinus hampeana (UNGER) HEER

Dedicated in memory of the late FrantiŠek Holý (1935 - 1984), an eminent Czech palaeobotanist, Holý, František, Kvaček, Zlatko & Teodoridis, Vasilis, 2012, A Review Of The Early Miocene Mastixioid Flora Of The Kristina Mine At Hrádek Nad Nisou In North Bohemia (The Czech Republic), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 68 (3 - 4), pp. 53-118 : 57-58

Pinus hampeana (UNGER) HEER

Pl. 4, figs 10-11

? 1845 Pinites thomasianus GÖPPERT in GÖPPERT et BERENDT, p. 92, pl. 3, figs 1-10 (Svetlogorsk).

1847 Pitys hampeana UNGER , p. 76, pl. 20, figs 1-3 (Hauenstein).

1855 Pinus hampeana (UNGER) HEER , p. 56, pl. 20, fig. 4 (Monod).

1913 Pinus laricio thomasiana (GÖPPERT) HEER ; Menzel, p. 21, pl. 3, figs 1-10 (Herzogenrath).

1919 Pinus thomasiana (GÖPPERT) REICHENBACH in KRÄUSEL, p.115, pl. 10, figs 29-30 (Weigersdorf).

1964 Pinus thomasiana (GÖPPERT) REICHENBACH ; Mai, pp. 15, 58, 86, pl. 1, fig. 3, pl. 12, fig. 1 (Wiesa, Piskowitz, Sandförstgen, Weigersdorf).

1966 Pinus thomasiana (GÖPPERT) REICHENBACH ; Holý, p. 42, text-fig. 2 (Hrádek/N., Kristina Mine).

Seed cones 40–50 mm long and ca. 20 mm wide, obliquely ovoid, cone scales with rarely preserved rhombic flat umbo, 6–7 mm wide, indistinctly sharply short extramucronate showing a shallow transverse wrinkle ( Holý 1975, p. 11, pl. 1, fig. 6, as Pinus cf. thomasiana (GÖPPERT) REICHENBACH ).

D i s c u s s i o n: These mostly abraded seed cones were tentatively identified by Holý (1966, 1975, 1977a) as Pinus cf. thomasiana and compared with the Miocene pines related to sect. Sylvestres (i.e., sect. Pinus subsect. Sylvestres LOUND. ) – see e.g., Kilpper 1968a, b, Mai 1999 a. Mai (1986, p. 589) corrected the taxonomy of this pine, often distributed in the Younger Mastixioid floras of Europe, introducing a proper species name Pinus hampeana (UNGER) HEER. At least some better preserved specimens from the Kristina Mine ( Holý 1966) fit with the concept of Pinus hampeana introduced by Mai (1986, 1999a) and confirm P. thunbergiana FRANCO (= P. massoniana SIEBOLD et ZUCC. ) from Japan as the closest living species ( Mai 1999 a).

M a t e r i a l: Ca. 20 partly abraded seed cones, G 7708, G 8815-17, Gs102.

Cupressaceae L. C. RICHARD ex BARTLING sensu GADEK et al. 2000

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