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Image Title: A Leaflet of Rhus toxicodendroides, a Fossil Plant from the Los Ahuehuetes Locality, Puebla, Mexico
Image Credit: Hector Hernández Campos
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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A leaflet of Rhus toxicodendroides, a fossil plant from the Los Ahuehuetes locality, Puebla, Mexico, a center of diversity for the Anacardiaceae since the Oligocene, suggesting that the area was important for the radiation and diversification for some lineages within the family.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

A diverse assemblage of Anacardiaceae from Oligocene sediments, Tepexi de Rodriguez, Puebla, Mexico

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