Hypericum danicum

Hypericum danicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Hypericaceae
Genus: Hypericum
Species:
†H. danicum
Binomial name
†Hypericum danicum
Friis

Hypericum danicum is an extinct species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. The species is known from a fossil seed found among other Hypericum seeds in Italy, and is dated to the Pliocene.[1] It has also been recorded several times from the Søby region of Denmark, also by discovered fossil seeds.[2]

References

  1. ^ Meseguer, Andrea S.; Sanmartín, Isabel (30 June 2012). "Paleobiology of the genus Hypericum (Hypericaceae): a survey of the fossil record and its palaeogeographic implications". Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid. 69 (1): 97–106. doi:10.3989/ajbm.2306. hdl:10261/167029. ISSN 1988-3196.
  2. ^ Denk, Thomas (29 August 2021). "New Fagaceous pollen taxa from the Miocene Søby flora of Denmark and their biogeographic implications". American Journal of Botany. 108 (8): 1500–1524. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1716. PMID 34458984 – via Botanical Society of America.