Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to M. Prasad 2008
See also Chandler 1961, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, 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, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia
Subtaxa: Litsea bhatiai Litsea cubeba 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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