Angiospermae - Gentianales - Apocynaceae

Alternative combination: Castanopsis chrysophylloides

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 Tabernaemontana according to H. D. MacGinitie 1941

See also Knowlton 1919 and Lesquereux 1878

Sister taxa: Tabernaemontana alternifolia, Tabernaemontana citrifolia, Tabernaemontana laurifolia, Tabernaemontana precoronaria

Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. holotype no. 1854.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. P3325, Chalk Bluffs (Eocene of California)

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