Gymnospermae - Coniferales - Podocarpaceae

Synonym: Falcatifolium australis Greenwood 1987 [objective synonym]

Full reference: R. S. Hill and L. J. Scriven. 1999. Falcatifolium (Podocarpaceae) Macrofossils from Paleogene Sediments in South-eastern Australia: a Reassessment. Australian Systematic Botany 11(6):711-720

Belongs to Sigmaphyllum according to R. S. Hill and L. J. Scriven 1999

See also Greenwood 1987

Sister taxon: Sigmaphyllum tasmanensis

Type specimens:

• Sigmaphyllum australis: Holotype: 2349, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a leaf (Cuticle)
• Falcatifolium australis: Holotype: 2349, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a sterile axis. Its type locality is ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine, which is in an Eocene channel mudstone/sandstone in the Demon Bluff Formation of Australia.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine (Eocene of Australia)

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