Family Apocynaceae de Jussieu 1789 (dogbane)

Angiospermae - Gentianales - Apocynaceae

Synonym: Asclepiadaceae Borkhausen

Parent taxon: Gentianales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016

See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1964, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2009

Sister taxa: Gelsemiaceae, Geniostomaceae, Gentianaceae, Jenkinsella, Loganiaceae, Rubiaceae, Strychnaceae

Subtaxa: Acerates Alstonia Alyxia Apocynaceoxylon Apocynocarpum Apocynophyllum Apocynospermum Asclepiadites Asclepiophyllum Aspidospermoxylon Carissa Chonemorpha Cricotriporites Cypselites Echitonium Fezzania Hemidesmus Landolphia Leakeyia Lyonsiaephyllum Neritinium Nerium Ochrosella Ochrosoidea Periploca Plumieroideae Polioexolobus Rauvolfia Tabernaemontana Tabernaemontanophyllum Wrightia

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (7 collections), Kenya (3)

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

• Pliocene of Bolivia (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (2), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Germany (1), India (1), Kenya (2), Nepal (1), Venezuela (4)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (7), India (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)

• Eocene of China (2), Colombia (10), France (2), Myanmar (13), the United Kingdom (2), United States (17: California, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Venezuela (1)

• Paleogene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (6), Colombia (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Colorado)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2)

Total: 105 collections including 118 occurrences

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