Laurophyllum sp.

Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Zajícová, Jana, 2015, Revision Of The Early Oligocene Flora Of Hrazený Hill (Formerly Pirskenberg) In Knížecí Near Šluknov, North Bohemia, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (1 - 2), pp. 55-102 : 61

Laurophyllum sp.

Pl. 4, Fig. 3–7, Pl. 6, Fig. 3

1961 Laurus princeps HEER ; Knobloch, p. 275, pl. 10, fig. 4.

1961 Laurophyllum sp. ; Knobloch, p. 276, pl. 10, fig. 8.

1961? Benzoin attenuata HEER ; Knobloch, p. 276.

1961 cf. Laurus primigenia UNGER ; Knobloch, p. 276, pl. 10, fig. 7.

Leaves elongate to oval, 48–106 mm long, 17–19 mm wide, entire-margined, venation camptodromous to brochidodromous lauroid, secondaries irregularly disposed.

D i s c u s s i o n. Lauroid leaf impressions described by Knobloch (1961, p. 275–276) are mostly preserved without clearly discernible cuticle structure and thus their identification to species level is very imprecise. One specimen (NM-G2885) yielded a very thinly cutinized abaxial epidermis, which is similar to the material from Markvartice assigned to Magnoliaceae (?) gen. et sp. by Bůžek et al. (1976).

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Leaf impressions, NM-G2884, NM-G2885a, b, NM-G2890a, b, NM-G2977, NM-G2890a, b, NM-G11998a, b, EK 258.