Florissantia quilchenensis

Florissantia quilchenensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Malvales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Malvaceae
Subfamilia: Sterculioideae
Genus: †Florissantia

Species: Florissantia quilchenensis

Name

Florissantia quilchenensis (Mathewes & Brooke) Machester 1992

Synonyms

• Holmskioldia quilchenensis Mathewes & Brooke 1971
  
• Hydrangea bendirei Berry 1929

Type locality

Early Ypresian, Eocene, Quilchena, British Columbia, Canada

Type Material

Holotype: Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada SFU Q-97

References

• Machester, Steven, R. (1992). Flowers, Fruit, and Pollen from Florissantia, an Extinct Malvalean Genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of Western North America. American Journal of Botany 79(9): 996–1008