Platanus Linnaeus 1753 (plane tree)

Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Platanaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Brown 1959, Christophel 1976, Knowlton 1899, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and McIver and Basinger 1993

Sister taxa: Aquia, Aspidiophyllum, Credneria, Hamatia, Langeranthus, Langeria, Macginicarpa, Macginistemon, Macginitiea, Platananthus, Plataninium, Platanites, Platanocarpus, Platanophyllum, Platanoxylon, Pseudoaspidiophyllum

Subtaxa: Platanus aceroides Platanus appendiculata Platanus aquehongensis Platanus aspera Platanus asperaeformis Platanus basilobata Platanus bella Platanus bendirei Platanus cissoides Platanus coloradensis Platanus condoni Platanus cordata Platanus diminutiva Platanus dissecta Platanus guillelmae Platanus haydenii Platanus heerii Platanus heterophyllus Platanus kuemmellii Platanus latior Platanus montana Platanus neptuni Platanus newberryana Platanus nobilis Platanus obtusiloba Platanus occidentalis Platanus paucidentata Platanus platanoides Platanus raynoldsi Platanus raynoldsii Platanus regularis Platanus rhomboidea Platanus ripleyensis Platanus shirleyensis Platanus tsuyazakiensis Platanus vivarium Platanus wardii

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), United States (1: California)

• Hemphillian of United States (2: California, Indiana)

• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)

• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Germany (3), Switzerland (3), United States (16: California, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Virginia, Washington)

• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Montana)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (7), Japan (1), United States (7: Idaho, Montana, Oregon)

• Eocene of China (1), Japan (2), United States (55: California, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)

• Clarkforkian of United States (6: North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Canada (6: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (96: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Canada (22: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (8), United States (34: Alaska, Kansas, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 283 collections including 327 occurrences

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