Hypericum danicum is an extinct species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. The species is known from a fossil seed found among other Hypericum seeds in Italy, and is dated to the Pliocene.[1] It has also been recorded several times from the Søby region of Denmark, also by discovered fossil seeds.[2]
| Hypericum danicum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Hypericaceae |
| Genus: | Hypericum |
| Species: | †H. danicum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hypericum danicum Friis
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References
edit- ^ Meseguer, Andrea S.; Sanmartín, Isabel (30 June 2012). "Paleobiology of the genus Hypericum (Hypericaceae): a survey of the fossil record and its palaeogeographic implications". Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid. 69 (1): 97–106. doi:10.3989/ajbm.2306. hdl:10261/167029. ISSN 1988-3196.
- ^ Denk, Thomas (29 August 2021). "New Fagaceous pollen taxa from the Miocene Søby flora of Denmark and their biogeographic implications". American Journal of Botany. 108 (8): 1500–1524. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1716. PMID 34458984 – via Botanical Society of America.