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Anatomically preserved Liquidambar (Altingiaceae) from the middle Miocene of Yakima Canyon, Washington state, USA, and its biogeographic implications¹

²SOLS Faculty & Admin, Arizona State University, Box 874501, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501 USA; ³Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605 USA; ⁴Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany & Herbarium, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100093, China

Liquidambar changii Pigg, Ickert-Bond & Wen sp. nov. (Altingiaceae) is established for anatomically preserved, middle Miocene infructescences from Yakima Canyon, Washington, USA. Specimens are spherical, 2.5 cm in diameter, and have 25–30 tightly packed, bilocular fruits per head. Fruits are 3.4–4.7 mm wide x 2.6–3.5 mm long and wedge shaped, fused at the base, and free distally. Each locule contains 1–2 mature, elongate seeds proximally and 5–9 aborted seeds of more irregular shape distally. Mature seeds are 1.5 mm long x 1.2 mm wide, elongate, and triangular transversely, with a slight flange. Seeds have a seed coat for which three zones can be well defined, a uniseriate outer palisade layer, a middle region of isodiametric cells comprising most of the integument, and a uniseriate inner layer of tangentially elongate cells lining the embryo cavity. Liquidambar changii is most similar to the eastern Asian L. acalycina H.-T. Chang on features of infructescence, fruit, and seed morphology and quite unlike the North American L. styraciflua L. and other species. Such a close relationship between these two species supports a Beringian biogeographic track between eastern Asia and western North America during the Miocene. Previous phylogenetic and allozyme analysis of modern Liquidambar demonstrates a close relationship between North American-western Asian taxa and suggests a North Atlantic biogeographic track in the middle Miocene. Together, these biogeographic tracks underscore the complexity of the biogeographic history of the Altingiaceae in the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Neogene.

Key Words: Altingia • Altingiaceae • biogeography • fossil fruit • infructescence • Liquidambar • Miocene • silicification

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