Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200
Parent taxon: Rhizophoraceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Berry 1914, Chauhan 1991 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Bruguiera, Carallioxylon, Ceriops, Gynotrochoxylon, Palaeobruguiera, Rhizophorites, Rhizophorocarpus, Rhizophoroxylon
Subtaxa: Rhizophora candel Rhizophora conjugata Rhizophora cylindrica Rhizophora eocenica Rhizophora gymnorhiza Rhizophora mangle
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (6 collections), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (7)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), Panama (22), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of India (1), Puerto Rico (13)
• Eocene of United States (3: Georgia)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of India (2)
Total: 60 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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