Frangulops Doweld, 2019

Doweld, Alexander B., 2019, New names for Ilex and Ilexpollenites (Aquifoliaceae), extant and fossil. Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes II. Aquifoliaceae, Phytotaxa 388 (2), pp. 179-191 : 186

Ilex pseudostenophylla

The leaf venation of the fossil-species of Ilex pseudostenophylla Lesquereux (1883: 185) allies them with the genera Frangula Miller (1754 : [517]) and Rhamnus Linnaeus (1753: 193) , but not with any Aquifoliaceae . However, no one species of Frangula or Rhamnus combines all the characters found in the fossils as it was still concluded by MacGinitie (1953). The leaves of Frangula rubra ( Greene [1887: 68]) Grubov (1949: 271) and Frangula pinetorum ( Standley [1940: 40]) Grubov (1949: 279) have some superficial similarity in form and venation as well as with leaves of Rhamnus lycioides Linnaeus (1762: 279) . Doweld (2017e) re-classified fossil rhamnaceoid foliage by proposing of new transferrings of fossil-species and proposing of the new fossil-genus Rhamnica Doweld (2016h: 193) . However, none of the known extant and fossil rhamnaceous genera match the combination of leaf characters of Ilex pseudostenophylla Doweld (2016h , 2017e); therefore, the fossil leaves of Ilex pseudostenophylla are necessary to keep in a distinct genus, for which a new generic name Frangulops Doweld , gen. nov., is proposed.