Angiospermae - Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
Full reference: A. L. d. Jussieu. 1789. Genera plantarum :secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam.
Parent taxon: Caryophyllales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and McIver and Basinger 1993
Sister taxa: Achatocarpaceae, Aizoaceae, Amaranthaceae, Anacampserotaceae, Ancistrocladaceae, Asteropeiaceae, Barbeuiaceae, Basellaceae, Cactaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Didiereaceae, Dioncophyllaceae, Droseraceae, Drosophyllaceae, Frankeniaceae, Gisekiaceae, Halophytaceae, Hantsia, Hectorellaceae, Kewaceae, Limeaceae, Lophiocarpaceae, Lymingtonia, Macarthuriaceae, Microteaceae, Molluginaceae, Montiaceae, Nepenthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Petiveriaceae, Phenanthera, Physenaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Plumbaginaceae, Portulacaceae, Rhabdodendraceae, Sarcobataceae, Simmondsiaceae, Stegnospermataceae, Talinaceae, Tamaricaceae
Subtaxa: Calligonum Coccoloba Coccolobis Coccolobites Muehlenbeckia Oxyria Persicaria Polycolporopollenites Polygonacidites Polygonites Polygonocarpum Polygonum Rumex
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (39), Canada (1: British Columbia), Greenland (3), India (33), Italy (1), Japan (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of China (2), Germany (6), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), South Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Brazil (2), China (3), Germany (7), Japan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (11), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Tertiary of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 148 collections including 230 occurrences