Angiospermae - Liliales - Smilacaceae
Alternative spelling: Smilaceae
Parent taxon: Liliales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Andrews 1970, Ettinghausen 1880, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Alstroemeriaceae, Calochortaceae, Campynemataceae, Colchicaceae, Convallariaceae, Corsiaceae, Dracaenaceae, Melanthiaceae, Petermanniaceae, Philesiaceae, Rhipogonum, Ripogonaceae, Smilaceae
Subtaxa: Smilacites Smilax
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), India (1), Japan (1)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of China (3), Japan (2), Switzerland (1), United States (3: California, Montana)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (2)
• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: California, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence