Sapindoxylon burmense Licht et al. 2014 (soapberry)

Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae

Full reference: A. Licht, A. Boura, and D. De Franceschi. 2014. Systematic descriptions, in Fossil woods from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 202:29-46

Belongs to Sapindoxylon according to A. Licht et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Sapindoxylon almelai, Sapindoxylon chhindwarensis, Sapindoxylon janssonii, Sapindoxylon schleicheroides, Sapindoxylon stromeri

Type specimen: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, MNHN.F.40107.L1/3, L2/3 & L3/3, a wood. Its type locality is Ganle kyitchaung, which is in a Bartonian fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic in the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Ganle kyitchaung

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