Platanus tsuyazakiensis Suzuki 1976 (plane tree)

Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae

Full reference: M. Suzuki. 1976. Some fossil woods from the Palaeogene of Northern Kyushu. The Botanical Magazine 89:59-71

Belongs to Platanus according to M. Suzuki 1976

Sister taxa: Platanus aceroides, Platanus appendiculata, Platanus aquehongensis, Platanus aspera, Platanus asperaeformis, Platanus basilobata, Platanus bella, Platanus bendirei, Platanus cissoides, Platanus coloradensis, Platanus condoni, Platanus cordata, Platanus diminutiva, Platanus dissecta, Platanus guillelmae, Platanus haydenii, Platanus heerii, Platanus heterophyllus, Platanus kuemmellii, Platanus latior, Platanus montana, Platanus neptuni, Platanus newberryana, Platanus nobilis, Platanus obtusiloba, Platanus occidentalis, Platanus paucidentata, Platanus platanoides, Platanus raynoldsi, Platanus raynoldsii, Platanus regularis, Platanus rhomboidea, Platanus ripleyensis, Platanus shirleyensis, Platanus vivarium, Platanus wardii

Type specimen: Laboratory of Phylogenetic Botany, Chiba University, No. 71256, a wood. Its type locality is Koinoura, Tsuyazaki, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial tuff in the Tsuyazaki Formation of Japan.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Koinoura, Tsuyazaki

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