Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales - Onagraceae
Parent taxon: Myrtales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Combretaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Myrtaceidites, Oliniaceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae
Subtaxa: Chamaenerion Corsinipollenites Crassiorites Epilobium Fuchsia Hartziella Jussiaeoidiorhizos Jussitriporites Ludwigia Neoholmgrenia Palaeeucharidium
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (8 collections), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Germany (2), Japan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Chile (1), Germany (18), United States (3: Massachusetts, Nebraska)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (7)
• Oligocene of Germany (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Colombia (12), Germany (1), Jamaica (1), Myanmar (10), United States (2: Alaska, California), Venezuela (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Colombia (9), United States (1: Virginia), Venezuela (3)
Total: 99 collections including 105 occurrences