Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to M. Prasad 2008
See also Chandler 1961, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, Kräusel 1939, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000 and Srivastava 1991
Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Cinnamomum, Crowella, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocotea, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Patagonoxylon, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Potoxylon, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia, Williamodendron
Subtaxa: Litsea bhatiai Litsea cubeba Litsea engelhardti Litsea populifolia Litsea prenitida Litsea pyriformis Litsea weediana
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), India (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (3)
• Miocene of China (5), India (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (5)
• Eocene of China (2), India (1), Japan (4), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleocene of France (1)
Total: 30 collections including 37 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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