A Review Of The Early Miocene Mastixioid Flora Of The Kristina Mine At Hrádek Nad Nisou In North Bohemia (The Czech Republic) Author Dedicated in memory of the late FrantiŠek Holý (1935 - 1984), an eminent Czech palaeobotanist Author Holý, František National Museum, Václavské nám. 68,115 79 Prague 1, the Czech Republic Author Kvaček, Zlatko Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, the Czech Republic, e-mail: kvacek @ natur. cuni. cz Author Teodoridis, Vasilis Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague, M. D. Rettigové 4, 116 39 Prague 1, the Czech Republic, e-mail: vasilis. teodoridis @ pedf. cuni. cz text Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 2012 2012-12-31 68 3 - 4 53 118 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.13191145 2533-4069 13191145 Tsuga schneideriana KUNZMANN et MAI Pl. 1, fig. 4, pl. 10, figs 3-4 1976 2005 Tsuga sp. ; Knobloch and Kvaček, p. 13, pl. 2, figs 6-9, pl. 12, fig. 21, pl. 15, fig. 12, pl. 20, fig. 9, text-fig. 3 (Wackersdorf). Tsuga schneideriana KUNZMANN et MAI , p. 106, pl. 12, figs 1-9, pl. 13, figs 1-3 (Wiesa). Leaves linear, needle-like, flat, 1 mm wide, one complete 17 mm long, blunt at apex, shortly petiolate at base, with obliquely attached petiole 0.7 mm long, entire on margin, adaxially slightly grooved along the strong and straight midrib, hypostomatic, epidermis thinly cutinized, non-modified cells straight-walled, very long, with smooth anticlinal walls, two abaxial stomatal bands containing 3–5 rows of stomata with sparsely distributed incompletely amphicyclic stomata arranged longitudinally. Stomatal apparatus composed of two lateral short halfmoon-shaped and two polar elongate subsidiary cells bordering the stomatal pit 25 × 50 µm in size. D i s c u s s i o n: Fossil needles similar to those described above from the Kristina Mine (Kvaček 1966, p. 19, pl. 3, figs 6a, b, pl. 4, fig. 3, text-figs 8-9) were assigned to Tsuga from Wackersdorf by Kvaček and Knobloch (1976) and later from Wiesa by Kunzmann and Mai (2005) , who more thoroughly studied modern living counterparts. Kvaček (1966) recognized the erroneous identification of such fossils assigned to Keteleeria ( Mai 1964 ) and suggested as the most similar living species T. jeffreyi HENRY and T. mertensiana ( BONG .) SARG . from North America while Kunzmann and Mai (2005) , based on more complex comparative material argued for Tsuga dumosa (D. DON ) EICHLER from southern China , NE India and Burma as the nearest living relative. M a t e r i a l: Isolated needles on slides, G 8868a-b, 8869a-c, 8870, 8871 (KR 104A, B, 346). Cathaya CHUN et KUANG