Editing Phellodendron (section)

==Fossil record==
''Phellodendron'' seeds are known from the Early [[Oligocene]] of eastern [[North America]], from the Mid [[Oligocene]] to the [[Pliocene]] of [[Europe]] and from the Pliocene of [[Asia]] and  [[Japan]].<ref>The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Edited by K. Kubitzki, Volume X, Flowering Plants Eudicots, Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, Springer, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York, {{ISBN|978-3-642-14396-0}}</ref>

One [[fossil]] seed of ''Phellodendron'' has been extracted from bore hole samples of the [[Middle Miocene]] fresh water deposits in [[Nowy Sacz]] Basin, [[West Carpathians]], [[Poland]].<ref>Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) [Szczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska)]. Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.</ref>
Several ''Phellodendron'' macrofossils have been recovered from the late [[Zanclean]] stage of [[Pliocene]] sites in [[Pocapaglia]],  [[Italy]].<ref>Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate  of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.</ref>