Smilax Linnaeus 1753 (greenbrier)

Angiospermae - Liliales - Smilacaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Smilacaceae according to Y.-S. Liu et al. 1996

See also Chauhan 1991, Ettinghausen 1880, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxon: Smilacites

Subtaxa: Smilax carbonensis Smilax coloradensis Smilax cyclophylla Smilax franklini Smilax grandifoliacretacea Smilax kansana Smilax labidurommae Smilax lamarensis Smilax obtusangula Smilax pristina Smilax raritanensis Smilax undulata Smilax wardii

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), India (1), Japan (1)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of China (3), Japan (2), Switzerland (1), United States (3: California, Montana)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (2)

• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: California, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence

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