Amooroxylon Bande and Prakash 1984 (mahogany)

Angiospermae - Sapindales - Meliaceae

Full reference: M. B. Bande and U. Prakash. 1984. Occurrence of Evodia, Amoora and Sonneratia from the Palaeogene of India. Proceedings of the Symposium on Evolutionary Botany and Biostratigraphy, Calcutta, 1979 (A.K. Ghosh Commemoration Volume), Current Trends in Life Sciences 10:97-114

Parent taxon: Meliaceae according to R. Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Aglaia, Aglaioxylon, Amoora, Aphanamixis, Azadirachta, Beddomea, Carapa, Carapoxylon, Cedrela, Cedrelophyllum, Chisocheton, Chisochetonoxylon, Chloroxylon, Chukrasia, Dysoxydendron, Dysoxylum, Heyneoxylon, Iugopollis, Melia, Meliaceaecarpum, Meliaceaephyllum, Meliaceophyllum, Meliapollis, Melicarya, Paratrichilioxylon, Synoum, Toona, Trichilia, Vavaea

Subtaxa: Amooroxylon deccanensis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Nawargaon ( of India)

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