Averrhoites affinis (NEWBERRY) HICKEY

Manchester, Steven R., 2014, Revisions To Roland Brown’S North American Paleocene Flora, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 70 (3 - 4), pp. 153-210 : 177

Averrhoites affinis (NEWBERRY) HICKEY

Averrhoites affinis was established by Hickey (1977) for the pinnately compound leaves that Brown (1962) called Sapindus affinis (NEWBERRY) BROWN. The leaves bear as many as 11 leaflets that are asymmetrical, ovate to elliptic, and entire-margined with 8 to 13 pairs of secondary veins. Although the familial affinities remain uncertain, it is noteworthy that this foliage type very often co-occurs with flowers of Calycites polysepala NEWBERRY. Scott Wing (pers. comm.) has obtained Pistilipollentites pollen from stamens of these flowers, indicating that they are equivalent to (and have nomenclatural priority) over the genus, Pistillipollianthus that was established on flowers from the Eocene of Horsefly, British Colombia ( Stockey and Manchester 1988).