Acacia oblita Saporta

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003671

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3671

Rank: species

Genus:

Reference for this name: Saporta, L. C. J. G. de (1889): Dernières adjonctions à la flore fossile d'Aix-en-Provence précédées de notions stratigraphiques et paléontologiques appliquées à l'étude du gisement des plantes fossiles d'Aix-en-Provence. 10(1–3): 1–192.

Page of description: 126

Illustrations or figures: pl. 18, figs. 28, 29, pl. 19 figs. 12–15

Other combinations

Parvileguminophyllum oblitum (Saporta) Tosal, R.Mariotti, Boura et Denk 2026

Types

Lectotype MNHN-F-14041, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
designated in Tosal, A., Mariotti, R., Boura, A. & Denk, T. (2026): Revisiting Oligocene Mimosa and Mimosites leaflets from southwest Europe: taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoclimate. – Pap. Palaeontol. 12(3): e70092 (1–21).
Figures: Fig. 5A
PFNR Number: PFN003703 / Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3703

Original diagnosis/description

A. foliis verosimiliter bi-tripinnatis; foliolis sessilibus, ellipsoideis, utrinque obtusatis.

Emended diagnosis

Leaflets asymmetrical, oblong and petiolulate. Apex round or mucronate. Lamina base strongly asymmetrical, usually round on one side, straight on the other. Margin entire. Primary venation pinnate. Secondary venation brochidodromous, with two thick basal secondary veins on one side of the lamina (Fig. 3). Basal-most secondary vein perpendicular to midvein and second basal vein arising from midvein at an angle of c. 70°.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Oligocene, Chattian
upper Oligocene (Chattian)

Locality

France
Aix-en-Provence

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood - angiosperm

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