Dicotyledoneae - Primulales - Myrsinaceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200
Parent taxon: Myrsinaceae according to M. Prasad 2008
See also Berry 1914, Chauhan 1991, Kershaw et al. 2007 and Knowlton 1919
Sister taxa: Aegiceras, Ardisia, Ardisiophyllum, Ardisioxylon, Icacorea, Myrsinites, Myrsinophyllum, Myrsinopsis, Pleiomerites, Pleiomeropsis
Subtaxa: Myrsine africana Myrsine borealis Myrsine capitellala Myrsine crassa Myrsine crassula Myrsine gaudini Myrsine laminarum Myrsine latifolia Myrsine oblongata Myrsine precapitellata Myrsine semiserrata
Type: Myrsine africana
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (25 collections), India (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Nepal (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1)
• Eocene of Japan (6)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 38 collections including 39 occurrences
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