Phylica piloburmensis Shi, S.Wang et M.S.Engel in Shi, Dong, Zhang, Long, Tihelka, Song, Feng, Jiang, Cai, Lombard, Li, Yuan, Zhu, Yang, Liu, Xiang, Zhao, Long, Schneider, Zhang, Peng, Li, Fan, Engel, Wang & Spicer

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003068

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3068

Authors: C. Shi, S. Wang & M. S. Engel

Rank: species

Reference: Shi, C., Dong, C. H., Zhang, H., Long, X. X., Tihelka, E., Song, W. C., Feng, Q., Jiang, R. X., Cai, C. Y., Lombard, N., Li, X., Yuan, J., Zhu, J. P., Yang, H. Y., Liu, X. F., Xiang, Q. P., Zhao, Z. T., Long, C. L., Schneider, H., Zhang, X. C., Peng, H., Li, D. Z., Fan, Y., Engel, M. S., Wang, Y. D. & Spicer, R. A. (2022): Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber. – Nature Plants 8: 125–135.

Page of description: 126

Illustrations or figures: Fig. 4

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Types

Original diagnosis/description

Leaves slightly wider (1.5–2.0 mm wide, 4.5–8.0 mm long) and both ad- and abaxial sides covered with simple linear hairs. Flowers not single but forming a capitulum. Petals present.
Fruit covered with dense indumentum. A complete description is provided in Supplementary Note 2.

Etymology

The specific epithet is a combination of the Greek term pîlos (πῖλος, meaning ‘hair’) and burmensis (itself a combina-tion of Burma and the Latin suffix -ensis, denoting place).

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Earliest Cenomanian, 98.79 Ma ± 0.62 (ca. 99) Ma.

Locality

Myanmar/Burma
Tanaing mines