Scleriocarya Chandler 1963 (sedge)

Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae

Full reference: M. E. J. Chandler. 1963. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. III. Flora of the Bournemouth Beds, The Boscombe, and the Highcliff Sands 1-169

Parent taxon: Cyperaceae according to H. N. Andrews 1970

See also Chandler 1963

Sister taxa: Bisboeckelera, Capitularina, Carex, Caricoideae, Cladiocarya, Cladium, Coleochloa, Cyperaceoxylon, Cyperacites, Cyperocarpus, Cyperus, Eleocharis, Gahnia, Krenakia, Liaoxia, Machaerina, Polycarpella, Schoenoplectus, Scirpitis, Scirpoideae, Scirpus, Scirpusoxylon, Trianoptiles, Volkeria

Subtaxa: Scleriocarya tribrachteata

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Type: Scleriocarya tribrachteata

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Highcliffs sands/Cliff End Beds, near Mudeford (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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