Euryale yunnanensis Huang and Zhou 2015 (water lily)

Angiospermae - Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae

Full reference: Y. J. Huang and Z. K. Zhou. 2015. Systematic descriptions, in Fossil seeds of Euryale (Nymphaeaceae) indicate a lake or swamp environment in the late Miocene Zhaotong Basin of southwestern China. Science Bulletin 60(20):1768-1777

Belongs to Euryale according to Y. J. Huang and Z. K. Zhou 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Kunming Institute of Botany, STB 028, a seed/fruit. Its type locality is Shuitangba, which is in a Baodean terrestrial claystone in the Zhaotong Formation of China.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Shuitangba

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