Taeniopteris crassinervis (Feistmantel) Walkom, 1917

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Taeniopteris crassinervis (Feistmantel) Walkom, 1917

Figure 14.2

1877 Taeniopteris crassinervis Feistmantel , p. 102, pl. 38, figs. 1, 2, 2a, 2b.

1886 Macrotaeniopteris lata Hector , p. 66, fig. 30A (4).

1917 Taeniopteris crassinervis (Feistmantel) ; Arber, p. 45, pl. 9, fig. 4, pl. 10, figs. 1-3, 5.

1986 Taeniopteris crassinervis (Feistmantel) Walkom ; Gupta, p. 195, figs. 2, 3.

Material. Curio Bay: LX2365.

Description. Leaves presumed strap-like, with entire margins, length probably> 200 mm, width c.

58 mm, midrib c. 2.0 mm wide, lateral veins at a high angle (c. 80°) to the midrib, 10–13 per 10 mm

of midrib, dichotomising within the lamina, with vein density increasing to c.18 per 10 mm in mid-lam-

ina.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Taeniopteris leaves. 1. Taenopteris spatulata, LX1097, Curio Bay; 2. Taeniopteris crassinervis, LX2365, Curio Bay; 3. Taeniopteris sp. ‘narrow’, LX2365, Little Bay-03. All scale bars equal 10 mm.