Apocynospermum striatum E. M. REID et CHANDLER

Kvaček, Zlatko & Teodoridis, Vasilis, 2011, The Late Eocene Flora Of Kučlín Near Bílina In North Bohemia Revisited, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 67 (3 - 4), pp. 83-144 : 105

Apocynospermum striatum E. M. REID et CHANDLER

Pl. 11, figs 6-9

1926 Apocynospermum striatum E. M. REID et CHANDLER , p. 118, Pl. 8, fig. 3.

Detached spindle-shaped seeds distinctly longitudionally striate with a long terminal coma, usually occurring solitarily, exceptionally adhering together or attached to long axis.

D i s c u s s i o n: Such seed remains have been recognised as belonging to Apocynaceae – Asclepiadaceae by Reid and Chandler (1926). The fruit bodies, which would contain the seeds, have not been determined. The corresponding foliage may be suspected among Apocynophyllum -like morphotypes described above. Occurrences of Apocynospermum in Europe are from Eocene to Miocene in age ( Echitonium UNGER p.p. by earlier authors). According to the priority (Manchester, S.R., personal communication) the correct name for such fossils is Cypselites HEER (1859) . In north Bohemia, similar forms are known besides Kučlín also from Mrtvý Vrch and also from the Oligocene sites, e.g., Kundratice ( Kvaček and Walther 1998).

M a t e r i a l: KUC 73, 118, 453, 454, G 68675.

Angiospermae fam. inc.

The following part includes angiosperm elements of the Kučlín flora based on fruits, seeds and foliage without clarified systematic positions. After more precisely defined taxa also an annotated list of enigmatic fossils follows to characterize diversity of the flora. The synonymies of the morphotypes are limited in view of insufficient diagnostic traits and partly poor and fragmentary preservation.