†Phytocrene sordida Lesquereux 1878 (white pear)
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Angiospermae - Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Alternative combination: Ficus sordida
Full reference: L. Lesquereux. 1878. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Auriferous Gravel Deposits of the Sierra Nevada. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 6(2):1-62
Belongs to Phytocrene according to H. D. MacGinitie 1941
See also Knowlton 1919 and Lesquereux 1878
Sister taxon: Phytocrene punctilinearis
Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. plesiotype no. 2278; Calif. Acad. Sci Paleo. Type.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: California, Wyoming collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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