Platanus appendiculata Lesquereux 1878 (plane tree)

Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae

Synonym: Acer aequidentatum Lesquereux 1878

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 Platanus according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Lesquereux 1878, MacGinitie 1941 and Wolfe and Tanai 1987

Sister taxa: Platanus aceroides, 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

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (9: California collections)

Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences

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