Angiospermae - Gentianales - Apocynaceae
Parent taxon: Asclepiadaceae according to H. N. Andrews 1970
See also MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Alstonia, Alyxia, Apocynaceoxylon, Apocynocarpum, Apocynophyllum, Apocynospermum, Aspidospermoxylon, Carissa, Chonemorpha, Cricotriporites, Cypselites, Echitonium, Fezzania, Hemidesmus, Kibatalia, Landolphia, Leakeyia, Lyonsiaephyllum, Neritinium, Nerium, Ochrosella, Ochrosoidea, Plumieroideae, Pseudolithos, Rauvolfia, Stapelianthus, Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontanophyllum, Thevetia, Topea, Wrightia, Periploca, Asclepiophyllum, Acerates, Polioexolobus
Subtaxa: Asclepiadites laterita
Type: Asclepiadites laterita
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. P3345, Chalk Bluff (Eocene of California)
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