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Palmoxylon edwardsii

Angiospermae - Arecaceae

Taxonomy
Palmoxylon edwardsii was named by Sahni (1931). It is not extant. Its type locality is Jabalpur, which is in a Paleogene fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Deccan Intertrappean Formation of India.

It was corrected as Palmoxylon edwardsi by Srivastava (1991).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. bacillare, P. cheyennense, P. hislopi, P. phytelephantoides, P. quenstedi, P. sundaram
Entered
by B. Allen on 2022-05-25

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Palmoxylon edwardsii Sahni
1976Palmoxylon edwardsii Lakhanpal et al.
1991Palmoxylon edwardsi Srivastava

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomViridiplantaeCavalier-Smith 1981
—Streptophyta(Jeffrey 1971)
superphylumEmbryophyta()
—Tracheophyta(Sinnott 1935)
phylumSpermatophyta
RankNameAuthor
classAngiospermae
—Mesangiosperms
—Monocots
familyArecaceaevon Berchtold and Presl 1820
genusPalmoxylonSchenk 1882
speciesedwardsiiSahni 1931

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.

†Palmoxylon edwardsii Sahni 1931
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available