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Genus of flowering plants

Phylica
Phylica pubescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Tribe: Phyliceae
Genus: Phylica
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Phylica rosmarinifolia

Phylica is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae. It contains about 150 species, the majority of which are restricted to South Africa, where they form part of the fynbos. A few species occur in other parts of southern Africa, and on islands including Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Île Amsterdam, Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island. Phylica piloburmensis from the Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to around 99 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous, was originally described as the oldest fossil member of the genus, but subsequent studies contested its assignment to the genus Phylica and even to the family Rhamnaceae, with one study placing it in the separate genus Nothophylica.

Species

Species in the genus Phylica include:

References

  1. ^ James E. Richardson; Michael F. Fay; Quentin C. B. Cronk; Mark W. Chase (2003). "Species delimitation and the origin of populations in island representatives of Phylica (Rhamnaceae)". Evolution. 57 (4): 816–827. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2003)057[0816:SDATOO]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3094618. PMID 12778551.
  2. James E. Richardson; Frans M. Weitz; Michael F. Fay; Quentin C. B. Cronk; H. Peter Linder; Gail Reeves; Mark W. Chase (2001). "Phylogenetic analysis of Phylica L. (Rhamnaceae) with an emphasis on island species: evidence from plastid trnL-F and nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ribosomal) DNA sequences". Taxon. 50 (2): 405–427. doi:10.2307/1223889. JSTOR 1223889.
  3. Shi, Chao; Wang, Shuo; Cai, Hao-hong; Zhang, Hong-rui; Long, Xiao-xuan; Tihelka, Erik; Song, Wei-cai; Feng, Qi; Jiang, Ri-xin; Cai, Chen-yang; Lombard, Natasha (2022-01-31). "Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Nature Plants. 8 (2): 125–135. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-01091-w. ISSN 2055-0278. PMID 35102275. S2CID 246443363.
  4. Oskolski, Alexei A.; Morris, Benjamin B.; Severova, Elena E.; Sokoloff, Dmitry D. (2024). "Flowers from Myanmar amber confirm the Cretaceous age of Rhamnaceae but not of the extant genus Phylica". Nature Plants. 10 (2): 219–222. Bibcode:2024NatPl..10..219O. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01591-x. PMID 38278949.
  5. ^ Beurel, Simon; Bachelier, Julien B.; Schmidt, Alexander R.; Sadowski, Eva-Maria (2024). "Novel three-dimensional reconstructions of presumed Phylica (Rhamnaceae) from Cretaceous amber suggest Lauralean affinities". Nature Plants. 10 (2): 223–227. Bibcode:2024NatPl..10..223B. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01592-w. PMID 38278948.
  6. "African Plant Database". Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Ville de Genève. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
Taxon identifiers
Phylica
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