Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200
Parent taxon: Hippocastanaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Chauhan 1991, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Liu et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Alectryon, Allophylus, Arytera, Athyana, Bohlenia, Cardiospermum, Cupania, Cupanieidites, Cupanites, Diatenopteryx, Djambioxylon, Dodonaea, Dodonaeites, Doratoxylon, Erioglossum, Euphorea, Euphoriaecarpum, Euphoriopsis, Euphorioxylon, Filicium, Fraasia, Ganophyllum, Harpullia, Heterodendrum, Hypelate, Klaassenoxylon, Koelreuteria, Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Omalocarpus, Otophora, Palaealectryon, Palaeallophyllus, Paranephelium, Pometioxylon, Sapindaceaepites, Sapindiphyllum, Sapindoidea, Sapindoides, Sapindophyllum, Sapindopsis, Sapindopsoxylon, Sapindospermum, Sapindoxylon, Sapindus, Schleichera, Schleicheroxylon, Striasyncolpites, Thouinopsis, Tripterodendron, Xerospermum, Aesculoxylon, Acer, Dipteronia, Monopleurophyllum, Acerites, Rulac, Acerpollenites
Subtaxa: Aesculus antiquus Aesculus arctica Aesculus constabularisii Aesculus hickeyi Aesculus hippocastanum Aesculus indica Aesculus pavia Aesculus simulata
Type: Aesculus hippocastanum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), India (6), Japan (2)
• Pliocene of Germany (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)
• Miocene of China (1), Germany (3), Japan (1), Poland (1), Switzerland (1), United States (4: Nevada)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (4: Idaho, Oregon)
• Paleocene of United States (4: North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences
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