Rhus Linnaeus 1753 (sumac)

Angiospermae - Sapindales - Anacardiaceae

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

Parent taxon: Anacardiaceae according to R. Srivastava and M. Suzuki 2001

See also Berry 1914, Brown 1959, Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: Amphipterygium, Anacardiophyllum, Anacardioxylon, Anacardites, Anacardium, Astronium, Astroniumxylon, Biloculocarpon, Bouea, Buchanania, Buchananioxylon, Campnosperma, Choerospondias, Colombicarpum, Comocladia, Cotinus, Dracontocarya, Dracontomelon, Dracontomelumoxylon, Drimycarpus, Edenoxylon, Gluta, Glutoxylon, Haplorhus, Heterocalyx, Holarrhena, Holigarnoxylon, Lannea, Lanneoxylon, Lobaticarpum, Loxopteroides, Mangifera, Mangiferoxylon, Melanorrhoea, Metopium, Nothopegia, Pentoperculum, Pistacia, Pleiogynium, Pseudosclerocarya, Pulcheripollenites, Rhoideae, Rhoidium, Schinopsis, Schinoxylon, Schinus, Schmaltzia, Semecarpites, Spondiae, Spondiaecarpon, Spondicarya, Swintonia, Swintonioxylon, Tapirira, Teschia, Trilobium, Xylocarya

Subtaxa: Rhus angustifolium Rhus bella Rhus bendirei Rhus boweniana Rhus cassioides Rhus cobbe Rhus copallinum Rhus coriaria Rhus coriarioides Rhus cotinus Rhus cretacea Rhus darlingtonensis Rhus deleta Rhus evansii Rhus frigida Rhus glabra Rhus heuefleri Rhus hilliae Rhus lakensis Rhus lesquereuxii Rhus lucidum Rhus malloryi Rhus membranacea Rhus mensae Rhus metopioides Rhus milleri Rhus mixta Rhus nervosa Rhus nevadensis Rhus palaeojavanica Rhus payettensis Rhus powelliana Rhus preintegrifolia Rhus punjabensis Rhus radicans Rhus redditeformis Rhus sonorensis Rhus subrhomboidalis Rhus succedanea Rhus tehachapiensis Rhus tomentosum Rhus toxicodendroides Rhus toxicodendron Rhus trifolioides Rhus typhinoides Rhus uddeni Rhus unitus Rhus viburnoides Rhus westii Rhus winchellii

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Type: Rhus coriaria

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (15 collections), Japan (1), Tanzania (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), Tanzania (1)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)

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

• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), China (6), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Japan (1), Poland (1), United States (4: California, Idaho, Washington)

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

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

• Oligocene of China (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), United States (5: Montana, Oregon)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)

• Eocene of China (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (27: California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Carolina)

Total: 89 collections including 111 occurrences

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