USNM 37614 Cassia alaskana Hollick  

Notes

Hollick (1930)

Pl. 74 Fig. 2

 

 

Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p.98)

"Yukon River, north bank, about 6 miles above Nahochatilton (original No. 2AC238); collected by A. J. Collier and Sidney Paige in 1902 (lot 2962) (pl. 74, fig. 2). Yukon River, north bank, about 16 miles below mine No.1, or 17 miles below Kaltag (original No. 40); collected by W. W. Atwood and H . M. Eakin in 1907 (lot 4643) (pl. 74, fig. 3)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p.98)

"Plate 74, Figures 2, 3"

"Leaves or leaflets inequilateral, asymmetric, 8 centimeters in length by 3.5 centimeters in width across the middle, tapering above to a blunt, acuminate, slightly curved apex, rounded below and broadly cuneate or truncate on one side of the base, sharply cuneate on the opposite side; margin entire; midrib curved above and below, in opposite directions; nervation simply pinnate, camptodrome; secondary nerves diverging from the midrib at obtuse angles on the rounded side of the leaf, especially in the lower part, and at acute angles on the opposite side, curving upward and anastomosing close to the margin."

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p.98)

"These specimens probably represent leaflets of a compound leaf such as are common in a number of genera in the Leguminosae. They are similar in general appearance to the European Tertiary species Cassia phaseolites Unger (1850) (p. 188 [58], pl. 66, figs. 1 - 9) and they evidently belong either in that genus or in one closely related."