Angiospermae - Rosales - Urticaceae
Parent taxon: Rosales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Barbeyaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Cannabaceae, Davidsoniaceae, Dialypetalanthaceae, Dirachmaceae, Drupaceae, Elaeagnaceae, Eucryphiaceae, Mimosaceae, Papilionaceae, Pomaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rosaceae, Ulmaceae, Urticaleoxylon
Subtaxa: Cecropia Coussapoa Discocnide Forskohleanthium Lebephyllum Neodistemon Petelotiella Pilea Pouzolzia Sarcochlamys Urtica Urticicarpum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (22), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (20), Tanzania (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1), Germany (5), the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Brazil (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (2), Ecuador (8), Germany (3), India (1), the Russian Federation (8), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of Myanmar (5), the United Kingdom (1)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), China (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Colombia (1), United States (5: North Dakota)
Total: 105 collections including 113 occurrences