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Issue: Vol. 316 No. 2: 4 August 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-08-04
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.316.2.10
Page range: 200–200
Abstract views: 38
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Ficus bilinaensis (Moraceae), a replacement name for a fossil fig tree of the Czech Republic

Programa de Pós–Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Av. Transnordestina, Novo Horizonte, 44036–900, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Campus Universitário, Rua Rui Barbosa, 710, Centro, 44380-000, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil.
Rosales Moraceae Ficus

Abstract

During the revision of fossils of Ficus Linnaeus (1753: 1059) (Moraceae) we consulted the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, Doweld 2016) and found a name which is a later homonym of a living Neotropical species of fig tree. Ficus clusiifolia Ettingshausen (1866: 68) is a fossil described from the Kučlín village at the south of Bílina town, Czech Republic. The Kučlín region represents a stratigraphically important locality of the North Bohemian Tertiary (Kvaček and Teodoridis 2011).