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''Turpinia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in family
Staphyleaceae Staphyleaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales, native to Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and the Americas. The largest genus ''Staphylea'', which gives the family its name, contains the "bladdernut" trees. ...
, native to Asia and North, Central, and South America. Species include: * '' Turpinia affinis'' * '' Turpinia arguta'' * '' Turpinia cochinchinensis'' * '' Turpinia formosana'' * '' Turpinia indochinensis'' * ''
Turpinia insignis ''Turpinia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Staphyleaceae, native to Asia and North, Central, and South America. Species include: * '' Turpinia affinis'' * '' Turpinia arguta'' * '' Turpinia cochinchinensis'' * '' Turpinia formosana'' ...
'' * '' Turpinia macrosperma'' * '' Turpinia malabarica'' * '' Turpinia megaphylla'' * '' Turpinia montana'' * '' Turpinia occidentalis'' * '' Turpinia ovalifolia'' * '' Turpinia parvifoliola'' * '' Turpinia robusta'' * '' Turpinia simplicifolia'' * '' Turpinia sphaerocarpa'' * '' Turpinia ternata'' * '' Turpinia tricornuta''


Fossil record

One
fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
seed of †''Turpinia ettingshausenii'' from the early
Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recen ...
has been found in the
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part of the
Zittau Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, :de:Oberlausitzer Mundart, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic languages, Slavic "''rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto' ...
Basin.


References

Rosid genera Staphyleaceae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{rosid-stub