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Palmospermum elegans

Angiospermae - Arecaceae

Taxonomy
Palmospermum elegans was named by Chandler (1961). It is not extant. Its type locality is The London Clay Flora - Sheppey, which is in a Ypresian marginal marine claystone in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. excavatum, P. minimum, P. parvum
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2020-05-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1961Palmospermum elegans Chandler p. 128 figs. Plate 13; Figs. 32, 33

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomViridiplantaeCavalier-Smith 1981
—Streptophyta(Jeffrey 1971)
superphylumEmbryophyta()
—Tracheophyta(Sinnott 1935)
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
RankNameAuthor
—Mesangiosperms
—Monocots
familyArecaceaevon Berchtold and Presl 1820
—Corypheae
genusPalmospermumReid and Chandler 1933
specieselegans

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Palmospermum elegans Chandler 1961
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available