Eocene “Chusquea” fossil from Patagonia is a conifer, not a bamboo

• Published in: PhytoKeys
• Main Author: Wilf, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020
• Subjects: Short Communication; Argentina; Pacific; Parodi; Patagonia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7010844/; https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.139.48717

Abstract. Chusquea oxyphylla Freng. & Parodi, 1941, a fossilized leafy branch from the early Eocene (52 Ma), late-Gondwanan Laguna del Hunco biota of southern Argentina, is still cited as the oldest potential bamboo fossil and as evidence for a Gondwanan origin of bamboos. On recent examination,...