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Liquidambar
| Description | Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (star gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. They were formerly often treated in Hamamelidaceae. They are decorative deciduous trees that are used in the wood industry and for ornamental purposes. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Saxifragales : Altingiaceae : Liquidambar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Spermatophyta : Magnoliopsida : Saxifragales : Hamamelidaceae : Liquidambar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Common Name | sweetgum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Liquidambar L. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (50%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 101 - 94 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Sweetgum, Sweet-gum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar |
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Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Liquidambar acalycina species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar californicum species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 8 | 48.6 Ma Eocene | 48.6 Ma Eocene | |
| Liquidambar callarche species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar cambodiana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar caudata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar chinensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar chingii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar convexum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar cucharas species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar dakotense ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Liquidambar europaeum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar excelsa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar fontanella species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar formosana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar gracilipes species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar incerta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar integrifolium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar multinervis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar obovata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar orientalis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar pachyphyllum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar poilanei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar siamensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar styraciflua species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar taiwanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar tuberculata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar wilcoxianum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Liquidambar yunnanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1753 | Liquidambar Linnaeus |
| 1941 | Liquidambar MacGinitie |
| 1959 | Liquidambar Brown p. 128 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
