Angiospermae - Celastrales - Celastraceae
Full reference: H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178
Belongs to Celastrus according to H. D. MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Celastrus alnifolius, Celastrus arctica, Celastrus borealis, Celastrus bruckmanni, Celastrus bruckmannifolia, Celastrus bullatus, Celastrus buxifolius, Celastrus caducidentatus, Celastrus colignitica, Celastrus confluens, Celastrus culveri, Celastrus curvinervis, Celastrus dignatus, Celastrus ellipticus, Celastrus fernquisti, Celastrus ferrugineus, Celastrus fraxinifolius, Celastrus gaudini, Celastrus grewiopsis, Celastrus haddeni, Celastrus hesperius, Celastrus inaequalis, Celastrus lacoei, Celastrus lindgreni, Celastrus minor, Celastrus montanensis, Celastrus myrtifolius, Celastrus ovatus, Celastrus pterospermoides, Celastrus pyracanthus, Celastrus scandens, Celastrus serratus, Celastrus taurinensis, Celastrus veatchi, Celastrus wardii
Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. cotypes nos. 2276. Its type locality is UCMP loc. P3320, Buckeye Flat, which is in an Eocene floodplain claystone in California.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: California collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.