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Image Title: Miocene winged fruits of Loxopterygium (Anacardiaceae)
Image Credit: Robyn J. Burnham, University of Michigan
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Winged fruits of modern and fossil Loxopterygium. Two modern species (top row) from seasonally dry tropical forests in South America are distinguished in fruit by the length of the pedicel. A new fossil species of Loxopterygium fruit from Miocene inter-Andean basins of Ecuador is morphologically similar to both modern species.

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Miocene winged fruits of Loxopterygium (Anacardiaceae) from the Ecuadorian Andes

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