†Gmelina tertiara Bande 1987 (verbena)
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Angiospermae - Lamiales - Verbenaceae
Full reference: M. B. Bande. 1987. Fossil wood of Gmelina Linn. (Verbenaceae) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Nawargaon with comments on the nomenclature of Tertiary woods. The Palaeobotanist 35:165-170
Belongs to Gmelina according to E. A. Wheeler et al. 2017
See also Bande 1987 and Srivastava 1991
Sister taxon: Gmelina asiatica
Type specimen: BSIP 35770, a wood. Its type locality is Nawargaon, which is in a Paleogene fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Deccan Intertrappean Formation of India.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Nawargaon
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