†Pistia claibornensis Berry 1914 (water cabbage)
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Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Full reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200
Belongs to Pistia according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Berry 1914
Sister taxa: Pistia corrugata, Pistia nordenskioeldi, Pistia spathulata, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia wilcoxensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Fiske property, which is in a Bartonian marine claystone in the McBean Formation of Georgia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Georgia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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