Pungiphyllum heerii (SIEBER) KVAČEK et TEODORIDIS 2011

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 : 105-106

Pungiphyllum heerii (SIEBER) KVAČEK et TEODORIDIS comb. n.

Pl. 15, figs 1-5

1881 Ilex heerii SIEBER , partim p. 87, pl. 4, fig. 23 (missing)(non Ilex heerii NATHORST 1888 ).

1990 “ Quercus ” cruciata A. BR ; Bůžek et al. p. 170, fig. 3.26

2002a Pungiphyllum cf. waltheri FRANKENHÄUSER et WILDE ; Kvaček, p. 224, pl. 2, fig 5.

N e o t y p e: The originally proposed type specimen of Ilex heerii SIEBER from Kučlín has not been recovered in the old collections in Prague or elsewehere. We propose a similar spiny leaf impression from the same locality figured as Pungiphyllum cf. waltheri FRANKENHÄUSER et WILDE by Kvaček. The specimen is refigured in Kvaček (2002a, pl. 2, fig. 5) and in this paper on pl. 15, figs 4-5, and housed in the collections of DB under the number of KUC 74A, B.

Leaves simple, narrow ovate, petiolate, 10–20 mm long, and 20–40 mm long, at the base cuneate to rounded, on the margin spiny irreg ularly simple toothed, sinuses rounded, venationt, camptodromous to secmicraspedodromous-craspedodromou, midrib thick, straight secondaries numerous, dense, with intersecondaries, looping along the margin, rarely entering the larger teeth directly, tertiary veins distinct, straight to convex, alternate, percurrent, looping by the margin, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate; areolation distinct to moderately developed, 3- to 4-sided; veinlets poorly preserved, dichotomous branching.

D i c u s s i o n: Only few similar, slightly larger leaves of this kind have been recovered at Kučlín. The material of Kučlín connects small leaves of Pungiphyllum waltheri FRANKENHÄUSER et WILDE from the Middle Eocene of Eckfeld with much larger and typically coarsely dentate morphotypes included so far into Pungiphyllum cruciatum , which were commonly reported from the Oligocene to Miocene of central Europe ( Kvaček and Walther 1981).

M a t e r i a l: KUC 74 A, B (neotype), KUC 38 , KUC

55 b KUC 213, KUC 214A, B.