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 & R.C.Brooke) Manchester 1992

• Type locality: Early Ypresian, Eocene, Quilchena, British Columbia, Canada
• Holotype: Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada SFU Q-97

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Holmskioldia quilchenensis Mathewes & R.C.Brooke, 1971
• Heterotypic
  • Hydrangea bendirei E.W.Berry 1929

References

Primary references

• Manchester, S.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. DOI: 10.2307/2444909, JSTOR Reference page. 

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