†Hovenia palaeodulcis Suzuki 1982 (buckthorn)
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Angiospermae - Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Full reference: M. Suzuki. 1982. Some fossil woods from the Palaeogene of Northern Kyushu, II. The Botanical Magazine 95:281-294
Belongs to Hovenia according to M. Suzuki 1982
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: College of Liberal Arts, Kanazawa University, No. 71257, a wood. Its type locality is Koinoura, Tsuyazaki, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial tuff in the Tsuyazaki Formation of Japan.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Koinoura, Tsuyazaki
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