Crowella Reid and Chandler 1933 (laurel)

Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae

Proposed for conservation against earlier nomenclatural synonym Actinostrobites Endlicher (1847) and taxonomic synonym Frenelites Endlicher (1847) by Doweld (in Taxon 82: 844. 2013).

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Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to H. N. Andrews 1970

See also Chandler 1964

Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Cinnamomum, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litsea, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocotea, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Potoxylon, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia, Williamodendron

Subtaxa: Crowella globosa

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at The London Clay Flora - Sheppey (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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