Liquidambar Linnaeus 1753 (sweetgum)

Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae

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

Parent taxon: Hamamelidaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1926

See also Brown 1959, Chandler 1961, Huang et al. 2023, Knowlton 1919, Liu et al. 1996 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: Allonia, Androdecidua, Corylopsiphyllum, Corylopsis, Corylopsites, Distylium, Eoliquidambar, Exbucklandia, Fothergilla, Hamamelidanthium, Hamamelis, Hamamelites, Liquidambaroxylon, Loropetalum, Mytilaria, Parrotia, Parrotiopsis, Protoaltingia, Rhodoleia

Subtaxa: Liquidambar californicum Liquidambar convexum Liquidambar cucharas Liquidambar dakotense Liquidambar europaeum Liquidambar obtusilobatus Liquidambar pachyphyllum Liquidambar palaeocenica Liquidambar protensum Liquidambar styraciflua

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), United States (3: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)

• Pliocene of Germany (5), Japan (2), Portugal (5)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Azerbaijan (3), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (3), Germany (40), Japan (10), Poland (2), Switzerland (4), Turkey (1), United States (15: Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Virginia, Washington)

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

• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Germany (10), Puerto Rico (4), the Russian Federation (3), United States (2: Oregon, Virginia)

• Eocene of China (2), Japan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (16: California, Virginia, Washington)

• Paleocene of the United Kingdom (2)

• Tertiary of Japan (3)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), United States (2: Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 151 collections including 153 occurrences

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