Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
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: Euphorbiaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Jacobs and Kabuye 1987 and MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Acalyphoideae, Agrostistachyophyllum, Alchornea, Alchorneaephyllum, Alchorneites, Aleuriteophyllum, Aleurites, Aleuritoxylon, Amperea, Antidesma, Baccaurea, Baliospermophyllum, Baliospermum, Baloghiaephyllum, Beyeria, Bischofinium, Bischofioxylon, Breynia, Bridelia, Bridelioxylon, Cephalomappa, Cleistanthus, Codiaephyllum, Croton, Crotonoideae, Crotonophyllum, Drypetes, Enriquebeltrania, Euphorbia, Euphorbiocarpon, Euphorbiofolium, Euphorbioides, Euphorbiophloios, Euphorbiophyllum, Euphorbiospermum, Euphorbiotheca, Euphorbioxylon, Euphorbocarpum, Excoecaria, Glochidion, Heveoxylon, Hippomaneoidea, Homonoia, Limalbocarpon, Macaranga, Macarangaephyllum, Mallotophyllum, Mallotoxylon, Mallotus, Neoshirakia, Omalanthus, Palaeowetherellia, Phyllanthinium, Phyllanthoideae, Phyllanthus, Piranheoxylon, Pseudolachnostyloxylon, Putranjivoxylon, Romanoa, Sapium, Securinegoxylon, Stillingia, Tithymalus, Trewia, Tricolporopollenites, Wetherellia, Xylophyllites
Subtaxa: Acalypha aequalis Acalypha australis Acalypha indica Acalypha myricina Acalypha virginica
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (14 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Tanzania (1)
• Miocene of Germany (1), Kenya (2)
• Eocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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