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FOSSIL MASTIXIOID (CORNACEAE) ALIVE IN EASTERN ASIA
Author(s) -
Eyde Richard H.,
Qiuyun Xiang
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1990.tb14455.x
Subject(s) - biology , subfamily , botany , araliaceae , zoology , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , pathology , gene , ginseng
The tree species Diplopanax stachyanthus, wrongly placed in the Araliaceae, belongs in fact to the mastixioid subfamily of Cornaceae. Fruit features make it congeneric with Mastixicarpum, part of a woody‐fruited complex known heretofore from Tertiary fossils.