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Leptaspis Brown 1810 (grass)

Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae

Parent taxon: Gramineae according to B. F. Jacobs and C. H. S. Kabuye 1987

Sister taxa: Actinocladum, Bambusa, Bambusoideae, Cerealia, Chrysochloa, Culmites, Elymus, Eragrosites, Glycerioxylon, Graminocarpon, Greeneochloa, Hubbardia, Hygrorhizos, Iseilema, Lepturus, Lygeum, Monoporopollenites, Neostapfia, Ophiuros, Palaeozea, Sohnsia, Tridens, Walwhalleya, Zea, Zotovia, Poacites, Rhizocaulon, Palaeopyrum, Oryza, Stipidium, Palaeophragmites, Glumophyllum, Paleoeriocoma, Graminophyllum, Palaeoavena, Berriochloa, Stipa, Festuca, Graminites, Phalaris, Setaria, Saccharum, Chaetochloa, Humbertochloa, Sorghum, Phragmites, Pennisetum, Arundinaria, Muhlenbergia, Andropogon, Bambusites, Panicum, Bromus, Phyllostachys, Oryzopsis, Triticum

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at BPRP K055 (Miocene of Kenya)

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