Palaeosinomenium obliquatum (Chandler) Chandler, 1961

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Palaeosinomenium obliquatum (Chandler) Chandler

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Menispermum obliquatum Chandler , Upper Eocene Flora of Hurndle Hants I: 24; pl. 3, fig. 9 (1925).

Palaeosinomenium venablesi Chandler , The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England I Palaeocene floras. London Clay flora (supplement): 159; pl. 16, figs 9-13 (1961).

Palaeosinomenium pulchrum Chandler , The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England I Palaeocene floras. London Clay flora (supplement): 329; pl. 33, figs 5-7 (1961).

Menispermicarpum rariforme Chandler , The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England I Palaeocene floras. London Clay flora (supplement): 331; pl. 33, figs 11, 12 (1961).

Palaeosinomenium hantonense Chandler , The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England III Flora of the Bournemouth Beds; the Boscombe, and the Highcliff Sands: 82; pl. 12, figs 10-12 (1963).

Palaeosinomenium ucrainicum Dorofeev , in Takhtajan, Magnolophyta Fossilia URSS I: 96; pl. 117, figs 11- 14 (1974).

Acknowkedgements

The authors would like to thank the curators at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Herbarium (PE), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Herbarium (KUN) and Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium (MO) for providing modern samples;J. H.A van Konijnenburg and I. M. van Waveren of Naturalis, the National Natural History Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands for access to the Reid collection. YSL thanks East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Museum of Natural History for help in collecting fossils at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee. We thank Nina Chaopricha (University of Wisconsin) and Selena Y. Smith (University of Michigan) for checking the English.We thank anonymous reviewers for their helping comments on the manuscript. The research was in part financially supported by National Science Foundation grants EAR 0746105to YSL, China postdoctor fellowship grant 20080431286, key laboratory, Kunming Institute of Botany,grant 086341121, CAS Young Scientists Fellowship(2009YB1-13),and NSFC Research Fellowship for International Young Scientists (40950110338) to FMBJ, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41030212) to ZKZ.