Dicotyledoneae - Primulales - Myrsinaceae
Parent taxon: Primulales according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Mabberley 2000
Sister taxon: Theophrastaceae
Subtaxa: Aegiceras Ardisia Ardisiophyllum Ardisioxylon Icacorea Maesa Myrsine Myrsinites Myrsinophyllum Myrsinopsis Pleiomerites Pleiomeropsis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (30 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (8)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (2), Nepal (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), China (1), India (1), New Zealand (1), Taiwan (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Japan (7), United States (1: Texas)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 60 collections including 62 occurrences