Acacia

Kovar-Eder, Johanna, Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis, Mazouch, Petr & Collinson, Margaret E., 2022, Floristic, Vegetation And Climate Assessment Of The Early / Middle Miocene Parschlug Flora Indicates A Distinctly Seasonal Climate, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 80-144 : 84

“ Acacia ” parschlugiana UNGER

2004 “ Acacia ” parschlugiana UNGER ; Kovar-Eder et al., p. 75, pl. 9, fig. 12.

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l. IBUG 2362 (counterpart to the neotype ( NHMW 1878 /6/9117) selected in Kovar-Eder et al. 2004: pl. 9, fig. 12) , IBUG 2455 , NHMW 1878 /6/2098.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Pinnately compound leaves, preserved as fragments and isolated leaflets; leaflets “mimosoid”, narrow oblong, slightly curved, l × w about (4) 6–7 × 0.9–2 mm, ratio l/w about 3–4.1, sessile, base convex to rounded, slightly asymmetrical, apex rounded, asymmetrically mucronulate; margin entire; venation very indistinct, only the midvein sometimes recognisable.

R e m a r k s. Similar foliage occurs in mimosoid legumes, such as Acacia , Albizzia and many others (see also Herendeen 1992: fig. 323).