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Cedrelospermum

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ21397579
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Cedrelospermum is an extinct genus of plants in the family Ulmaceae. Its fossils have been found in the early Eocene to early Oligocene strata in North America, in the middle Eocene to middle Miocene strata in Europe, and in the middle Eocene of Bangor in Tibet, the late Eocene of Nyima, the late Oligocene of Shuanghu, and the late Eocene of Maguan in Yunnan in Asia.

The fruits of the genus Cedrelospermum are oval to triangular, with a membranous wing on one side. Some species have only one wing; others have two separate wings, a primary wing and a secondary wing.

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This entry incorporates text from Cedrelospermum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.