Liquidambar sp.

Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele & Kovar-Eder, Johanna, 2022, Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 157-188 : 170-171

Liquidambar sp.

Pl. 5, Fig. 20

M a t e r i a l. Liquidambar pollen grains were observed in four palynological samples of the selected range ( Tab. 2), including the layers with plant macrofossils.

R e m a r k s. The conservation of pollen grains is good, but they are not very common in the palynological assemblages.

Liquidambar cf. europaea A.BRAUN in Buckland 1836 Pl. 3, Fig. 3

M a t e r i a l. A very compressed, poorly preserved infructescence in GLA19 (MGPT-PU141021).

R e m a r k s. The radially oriented acuminate remains of individual fruits, in a globular infructescence, are diagnostic because they are larger and less numerous than those in Platanus . Although the poor preservation would hamper a species level identification, assignment to Liquidambar europaea can be suggested because this is the sole species firmly documented from the Italian Neogene ( Teodoridis et al. 2015a, Martinetto et al. 2018b).