CUTICLES OF PHOENICOPSIS FROM NE CHINA WITH DISCUSSION ON ITS TAXONOMY

Ⅰ.ForewordGenus Phoenicopsis one of the commongenera from Mesozoic floras in Eurasia.Based onthe external characters of leaves and dwarf shoot,it was established as a form-genus by Heer andclassified to the Taxineae of Coniferae(Heer,1876,p.48),with P.angustifolia Heer as type-species which was collected from the Middle Ju-rassic Prisajan Formation of the Irkutsk basin,Siberia,USSR for the first time.During the sameperiod,Heer also created P.speciosa Heer and P.latior Heer from the Amur River valley(1876,pp.112—113).Later,Nathorst(1897)describedP.speciosa from Spitsburgen,Krasser(1900,1905)established P.taschkessiensis Krasser,P.potoniiKrass.and p.media Krass.from Centre Asia anddescribed some Phoenicopsis from Jilin,China;Kryshtofovich(1910,1924)reported P.speciosa

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