Corylus Linnaeus 1753 (hazel)

Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200

Parent taxon: Betulaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1899, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Alnipollenites, Alnites, Alnites, Alnophyllum, Alnoxylon, Alnus, Betula, Betulapollenites, Betuliphyllum, Betulites, Betuloxylon, Carpinicarpus, Carpinoxylon, Carpinus, Corylites, Coryloideae, Coryloxylon, Cranea, Eucarpinoxylon, Hooleya, Ostrya, Ostryoxylon, Polyporopollenites, Triporatus

Subtaxa: Corylus acutertiaria Corylus americana Corylus avellana Corylus colurna Corylus ferox Corylus fosteri Corylus harrimani Corylus insignis Corylus macquarrii Corylus orbiculata Corylus palachei Corylus rostrata

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Type: Corylus avellana

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), India (22), Japan (2), North Atlantic (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (4), Japan (1), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (6), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (2), Germany (5), Japan (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (5: Massachusetts, Virginia)

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

• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Eocene of Canada (4: British Columbia), China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Alaska, North Dakota)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Paleocene of China (2), United States (25: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 111 collections including 117 occurrences

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