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Styrax sp., Snowbell tree(s)

genus Styrax Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: early Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Ericales, family Styracaceae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Nagano, Aichi
• Pliocene: Niigata, Tokyo, Gifu, Mie, Hyogo
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Saitama, Mie, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Fukushima, Niigata, Toyama, Tochigi, Tokyo, Chiba, Shizuoka, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Okayama
• Investigation in progress: Mie

• Subtaxa
• S. japonicus, Japanese snowbell
• S. laevigata
• S. microcarpa
• S. obassia, Fragrant snowbell
• S. protoobassia
• S. rugosus
• S. shiraianus