Combretum Löfling 1763 (bushwillow)

Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales - Combretaceae

Parent taxon: Combretaceae according to M. Prasad et al. 2017

See also Antal and Awasthi 1993, Khan et al. 2015, Knowlton 1919, Prasad 2008 and Prasad and Tripathi 2000

Sister taxa: Anogeissus, Anogeissusoxylon, Anogeissuxylon, Calycopteris, Combretacinium, Combretanthites, Conocarpites, Conocarpus, Getonites, Laguncularia, Terminalia, Terminalioxylon, Terminaliphyllum

Subtaxa: Combretum miocenicum Combretum obovalis Combretum ovalis Combretum prechinense Combretum purniyagiriense Combretum sahnii Combretum wilcoxensis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), India (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Uganda (9)

• Miocene of Bhutan (1), India (2), Nepal (1), Venezuela (2)

• Eocene of United States (1: Texas)

• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia)

Total: 24 collections including 33 occurrences

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