Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Parent taxon: Gramineae according to K. Ozaki 1974
See also Berry 1914, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Actinocladum, Bambusa, Bambusoideae, Cerealia, Chrysochloa, Culmites, Elymus, Eragrosites, Glycerioxylon, Graminocarpon, Greeneochloa, Hubbardia, Hygrorhizos, Iseilema, Lepturus, Lygeum, Monoporopollenites, Neostapfia, Ophiuros, Palaeozea, Sohnsia, Tridens, Walwhalleya, Zea, Zotovia, Triticum, Setaria, Graminophyllum, Leptaspis, Oryza, Rhizocaulon, Graminites, Bambusites, Stipa, Bromus, Phyllostachys, Arundinaria, Palaeopyrum, Festuca, Chaetochloa, Paleoeriocoma, Berriochloa, Humbertochloa, Muhlenbergia, Sorghum, Saccharum, Palaeoavena, Glumophyllum, Andropogon, Pennisetum, Stipidium, Palaeophragmites, Panicum, Poacites, Phalaris, Oryzopsis
Subtaxa: Phragmites alaskana Phragmites cliffwoodensis Phragmites cordaiformis Phragmites cretaceus Phragmites falcata Phragmites laramianus Phragmites latissima Phragmites prattii
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bolivia (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1), Germany (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (4)
• Miocene of China (3), Germany (2), Italy (1), Japan (9), Switzerland (3), United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan)
• Cretaceous of United States (4: Georgia, South Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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