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Leguminosites cladrastioides
Leguminosites cladrastioides Z. Kvaček, H. Walther Sborn. Nár. Muz. Praze, Řada B, Přír. Vědy, 60(1-2): 31. Sep 2004
- Name
- Leguminosites cladrastioides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Leguminosites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kvaček Z.
Walther H.
- Publication
- Oligocene flora of Bechlejovice at Děčín from the neovolcanic area of the České středohoří Mountains, Czech Republic [2004/9]
- Journal
- Sborník Národního Muzea v Praze
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 31
- Year
- 2004
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Rupelian
- Location
- Bechlejovice, suburbs of Děčín, Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Národní Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
- Repository Number
- NM G 5504
- Diagnosis
- Leaves compound, with more than 7 pairs of sub-opposite to slightly alternate leaflets, incomplete in length, petiole enlarged on the base, 25 mm and more long, continuing into almost straight rachis, leaflets attached at an angle of 90–40° (the lowermost pair to 130°), sessile to very shortly petiolulate, narrow ovate to slightly falcate, 8–20 mm wide and 20–60 mm long, slightly asymmetric and rounded at base, apex narrow acute, venation
brochidodromous, midrib gently bent, secondaries in 7 or more subopposite pairs, widely and irregularly spaced, at an angle of 50–65°, thinning towards the loops near margin, short intersecondaries occasionally present, tertiaries and higher-order veins reticulate forming ± isometric meshes.
