Smilax sagittifera HEER emend. Hantke 1954

Kovar-Eder, Johanna, Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis, Mazouch, Petr & Collinson, Margaret E., 2022, Floristic, Vegetation And Climate Assessment Of The Early / Middle Miocene Parschlug Flora Indicates A Distinctly Seasonal Climate, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 80-144 : 99-100

Smilax sagittifera HEER emend. Hantke 1954

2004 Smilax sagittifera HEER ; Kovar-Eder et al., p. 83, pl. 11, figs 19, 20.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaves lacking petiole; lamina ovate, l × w about 50–60 × 28–46 mm, ratio l/w about 1.2–1.8, base auriculate or convex, apex incomplete; margin entire; venation actinodromous, at least 7 primaries radiating from the base, midvein straight, basal (outer) lateral primaries looping along margin, inner ones possibly reaching the apex; tertiaries forming distinct, relatively large meshes variable in form according to position within the lamina.

Ternstroemites pereger (UNGER) KOVAR- EDER et KVAČEK Pl. 10, Figs 10–14

2004 Ternstroemites pereger (UNGER) KOVAR- EDER et KVAČEK; Kovar-Eder et al., p. 63, pl. 6, figs 1–7.

2004 Dicotylophyllum sp. 2 ; Kovar-Eder et al., p. 88, pl. 15, figs 2, 3.

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l. GBA 2005/0004/0107, 0121; NHMW Pb 2391a (counterpart of NHMW 1878/6/6555; Kovar-Eder et al. 2004: pl. 15, fig. 3), NHMW 1878/6/9507.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Long-petiolate leaves; oblong to slender elliptic, length of petiole about 10 mm, l × w about 28–60 (75) × 8–16 (22) mm, ratio l/w about (2.6) 3.1–3.9 (4.4), base cuneate to convex, apex acute; margin serratecrenulate, except at the very base, teeth directed towards apex, rounded, occasionally somewhat hook-shaped, with more or less distinct apical glands; midvein straight, strong; secondary veins semicraspedodromous, delicate, faintly visible, originating at moderate angles, regularly spaced, looping at margin; higher order veins not visible.

Differing from Dicotylophyllum sp. H , W and Prinsepia serra see those taxa.

Differing from Ulmus plurinervia by more symmetrical laminar shape, rounded shape of the glandular teeth and less distinct semicraspedodromous secondaries.

Toxicodendron melaenum (UNGER) DOWELD Pl. 10, Figs 3–9

2004 Toxicodendron herthae (UNGER) KVAČEK et H.WALTHER ; Kovar-Eder et al., p. 80, pl. 9, figs 17–19.

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l. GBA 2005/0004/0038, 0042, IBUG 1808 + 1809 (part + counterpart), 1942, cf. 2041, 2042, 2988 + 2989 (part + counterpart), NHMW 1878/6/2028.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Probable leaflets of quite variable shape; presumably terminal leaflets sometimes long petiolulate, rather symmetric, ovate to subtrilobed, base rounded to acute, apex bluntly acute to bluntly acuminate; lateral leaflets sessile, asymmetric oblong to elliptic to ovate or slightly obovate, l × w about (15) 20–50 (> 80) × 12–30 mm, ratio l/w about (1) 1.3–2.2 (2.8), base acute/convex/cuneate to decurrent/rounded, apex (broadly) acute to rounded; margin with coarse teeth of different size to rather regularly toothed, teeth blunt; in terminal leaflets the first basal tooth of rather large size, the others as in lateral leaflets; midvein straight; secondary venation eucamptodromous to craspedodromous, in apical leaflets the basal secondaries arising above base, entering basal teeth more prominently than in lateral leaflets; tertiaries forming a network of coarse meshes.

R e m a r k s. Statements about this species by Doweld (2018a) require some reconsideration and correction. Unger’s study of the flora of Swoszowice is very likely to have been published already in 1849 as printed on the available preprints (see ICN 31.1. for date of effective publication) and not in 1850 as stated by Doweld (2018a). Unger (1850: 473) stated “In schisto margaceo ad Parschlug Stiriae, nec non ad Swoszowice Galiciae” which indicates that it was already known in 1850 that Rhus herthae (as defined by Unger taxonomically) did not occur at Swoszowice. This could only be known if the work on the Swoszowice flora had already been completed. Doweld (2018a) also argued that material from both Swoszowice and Parschlug served Unger (1850) for the protologue of R. herthae . This is not correct for Unger (1850) but it is for Unger (1849), because, although Unger (1849: 126) stated that the protologue-diagnosis was based exclusively on a specimen from Parschlug, which material from Swoszowice closely resembled he chose a specimen from Swoszowice to be figured and therefore to be a part of the protologue (see protologue definition in ICN glossary “Everything associated with a name at its valid publication, e.g. description, diagnosis, illustrations, references, synonymy, geographical data, citation of specimens, discussion, and comments”). Therefore, the selection of a lectotype for R. herthae from Swoszowice by Iljinskaja (1964) was very unfortunate, but valid (see ICN 9.19. and Note 7).

For differentiation from Acer integrilobum , Ailanthus pythii , “ Celastrus ” europaea and Dicotylophyllum sp. L see those taxa.