Abstract
Abstract. TERMINALIA PALAEOPUBESCENS NOV. SP. (COMBRETACEAE), FROM THE FONSECA FORMATION (EOCENE/ OLIGOCENE), MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL: LEAF ARCHITECTURE, EPYPHYLLOUS FUNGI AND PALEOCLIMATE. In this study, well-preserved leaf-blade compressions and impressions from shale levels in the Fonseca Formation (Priabonian/Rupelian of the Fonseca Basin, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil) and associated epiphyllous fungi are described. Based on leaf architecture and indumentum, a new species is established, assigned to the extant tropical genus Terminalia L. (Combretaceae). The leaf of Terminalia palaeopubescens sp. nov. is mesophyll, narrow obovate and with an entire margin. Its secondary veins are camptodromous-brochidodromous, the tertiary pattern is percurrent mixed predominantly alternate, the quaternaries are alternate percurrent and the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, with small and well developed areoles. Trichomes are present in the indumentum and are simple, slender, pointed, and wi...
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