Revision Of The Early Oligocene Flora Of Hrazený Hill (Formerly Pirskenberg) In Knížecí Near Šluknov, North Bohemia
Author
Kvaček, Zlatko
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, CZ - 128 43 Praha 2, the Czech Republic; e-mail: kvacek @ natur. cuni. cz;
Author
Teodoridis, Vasilis
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Magdalény Rettigové 4, CZ - 116 39 Praha 1, the Czech Republic; e-mail: vasilis. teodoridis @ pedf. cuni. cz;
Author
Zajícová, Jana
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, CZ - 128 43 Praha 2, the Czech Republic; e-mail: jana. zajicova @ natur. cuni. cz.
text
Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B
2015
2015-10-31
71
1 - 2
55
102
http://dx.doi.org/10.14446/amnp.2015.55
journal article
10.14446/AMNP.2015.55
2533-4069
13182943
Populus zaddachii
HEER
Pl. 17, Fig. 4–6
1859
Populus zaddachii
HEER
, p. 307
1869
Populus zaddachii
HEER
; Heer, p. 30, pl. 5, pl. 6, fig. 1–7, pl. 12, fig. 1c.
1961
Populus zaddachii
HEER
; Knobloch, p. 254, pl. 12, fig. 9, pl. 13, fig. 5, pl. 14, fig. 2, 7.
According to
Knobloch (1958
, translated from Czech), the leaves are broadly ovate elongate to cordate with crenulate-serrate margin, at base rounded to slightly cordate; the midrib is straight extending into a flattened petiole up to
2 mm
broad and accompanied by two lateral primaries, from which thin secondary veins arise. They attain a size ranging from
36 mm
to more than
120 mm
in length and
29–73 mm
in width.
D i s c u s s i o n.
Knobloch (1961
, p. 254) stressed the large variation in leaf morphology of
P. zaddachii
and compared it with the living
P. balsamifera
L. This fossil species typical of the European Oligocene (see
Mai and Walther 1978
) is known from several other Oligocene sites in North
Bohemia
and Saxony (see
Walther and Kvaček 2007
).
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Leaf impressions, NM-G2990, NM-G2991, NM-G8578, NM-G8579a, b, NM-G8590, NM-G8604a, b, EK 359.