Biology:Parabaena

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Parabaena is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae.[1][2] Its native range includes the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, the Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.[1]

Fossil record

Pliocene seed and fruit fossils of †Parabaena rhenana are described from sand-filled river-channels in the brown coal pit of Fortuna-Garsdorf near Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.[3]

Species

Accepted species in the genus include:[1]

  • Parabaena denudata Diels
  • Parabaena echinocarpa Diels
  • Parabaena elmeri Diels
  • Parabaena megalocarpa Merr.
  • Parabaena sagittata Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Parabaena tuberculata Becc.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Parabaena Miers". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26982-1. 
  2. ↑ "Parabaena Miers". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6DMC. 
  3. ↑ Van Der Burgh, J. (September 1978). "The pliocene flora of Fortuna-Garsdorf I. fruits and seeds of angiosperms". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 26 (1–4): 173–211. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(78)90011-8. 

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