Symplocos Jacquin 1760 (sweetleaf)

Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Symplocaceae

Parent taxon: Symplocaceae according to B. H. Tiffney 1999

See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Kershaw et al. 2007 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976

Sister taxa: Durania, Epacridicarpum, Pallioporia, Sphenotheca, Symplocoides, Symplocoipollenites

Subtaxa: Symplocos bognorensis Symplocos grimsleyi Symplocos headonensis Symplocos lakensis Symplocos trilocularis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (28 collections), India (8)

• Pliocene of Germany (4)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Japan (3)

• Miocene of Germany (71), Japan (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Massachusetts, Vermont)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Maryland)

• Oligocene of Germany (18), the United Kingdom (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (10), United States (28: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Japan (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)

Total: 180 collections including 315 occurrences

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