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Heliconia (lobster-claw)
Taxonomy
Heliconia was named by Linnaeus (1771). It is extant.
It was assigned to Musaceae by Srivastava (1991).
It was assigned to Musaceae by Srivastava (1991).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1771 | Heliconia Linnaeus |
| 1991 | Heliconia Srivastava |
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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.
G. Heliconia Linnaeus 1771 [lobster-claw]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Paleogene to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 66.00000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Paleogene | India (Madhya Pradesh) | Heliconia sp. (224606) | |
| Tertiary - Late/Upper Miocene | Venezuela (Trujillo) | Heliconia elegans (32005) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Costa Rica | Heliconia sp. (31313) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Cuba (Matanzas) | Heliconia sp. (32044) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Venezuela (Trujillo) | Heliconia elegans (31280) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Heliconia elegans (34145 34148) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | Bolivia | Heliconia tertiaria (32043) |