Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae
Alternative combinations: Aralia whitneyi, Platanophyllum whitneyi
Full reference: L. Lesquereux. 1878. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Auriferous Gravel Deposits of the Sierra Nevada. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 6(2):1-62
Belongs to Macginitiea according to S. R. Manchester 1986
See also Knowlton 1919, Lesquereux 1878 and MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Macginitiea angustiloba, Macginitiea gracilis, Macginitiea nobilis, Macginitiea wyomingensis
Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. plesiotypes nos. 2229, 2230, 2231, 2232, 2233, 223.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (11: California, Wyoming collections)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
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