Family Smilacaceae Ventenat 1799 (greenbrier)

Angiospermae - Liliales - Smilacaceae

Alternative spelling: Smilaceae

Parent taxon: Liliales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016

See also Andrews 1970, Ettinghausen 1880, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Alstroemeriaceae, Calochortaceae, Campynemataceae, Colchicaceae, Convallariaceae, Corsiaceae, Dracaenaceae, Melanthiaceae, Petermanniaceae, Philesiaceae, Rhipogonum, Ripogonaceae, Smilaceae

Subtaxa: Smilacites Smilax

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), India (1), Japan (1)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of China (3), Japan (2), Switzerland (1), United States (3: California, Montana)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (2)

• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: California, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming)

• Paleogene of India (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence

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