Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales - Lythraceae
Parent taxon: Myrtales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Combretaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Myrtaceidites, Oliniaceae, Onagraceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae
Subtaxa: Alatospermum Ammannia Cranmeria Decodon Duabanga Enigmocarpon Lagerstroemia Lagerstroemioxylon Microdiptera Minsterocarpum Pachyspermum Palaeolythrum Tamesicarpum Woodfordia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (7 collections), Japan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Germany (4), India (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (2), Nepal (1)
• Miocene of Denmark (1), Germany (56), India (5), Nepal (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (20), United States (1: Vermont)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (16), the Russian Federation (19), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Oregon)
• Eocene of Germany (1), India (1), Myanmar (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Oregon)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Belgium (1)
• Tertiary of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Cretaceous of India (1), Mexico (1)
Total: 160 collections including 264 occurrences