Vitis parasilvestris KIRCHHEIMER

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 : 68-69

Vitis parasilvestris KIRCHHEIMER

Pl. 6, figs 6-7

1941b Vitis parasilvestris KIRCHHEIMER , p. 650, fig. 9 (Klettwitz).

1964 Vitis parasilvestris KIRCHHEIMER ; Mai, p. 37, pl. 3, fig. 27 (Wiesa).

1977a Vitis parasilvestris KIRCHHEIMER ; Holý, p. 112 (Hrádek/N., Kristina Mine).

Seeds elongate obovoid, 4.1–5.5 mm long, 2.3–3.3 mm wide, deeply incised on top, often asymmetrical, base narrowing into a stout, elongated cylindrical micropylar process, dorsal side convex with small oval chalaza, ventral side keeled, raphe with lateral parallel deep narrow furrows ( Holý 1975, pp. 76-7, pl. 16, figs 3-6).

D i s c u s s i o n: According to Holý (1975) this fossil species is close to the living V. silvestris GMEL. and is often named V. silvestris GMEL. foss. A fossil species closely related to Vitis parasilvestris was described from the Oligocene and Miocene of western Siberia as V. tomskiana DOROFEEV (1963a, p. 214) .

M a t e r i a l: 6 seeds, several fragments, G 3055, 8837.

Ampelopsis MCHX.