Angiospermae - Asterales - Menyanthaceae
Parent taxon: Asterales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Alseuosmiaceae, Argophyllaceae, Argophyllum, Asteraceae, Calyceraceae, Campanulaceae, Donatiaceae, Goodeniaceae, Pentaphragmataceae, Phellinaceae, Rousseaceae, Stylidiaceae, Stylidium
Subtaxa: Liparophyllum Menyanthes Villarsia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (15 collections), the United Kingdom (7), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)
• Miocene of Germany (5), the Russian Federation (10)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (8)
Total: 49 collections including 50 occurrences