Numerical comparison of extant and fossil pollen reveals South American ancestors for Embothrium in South America, and Telopea-Alloxylon and Banksia in Australia

Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e175919 (24 Oct 2025) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e175919 (24 Oct 2025) Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e175919 First posted 24 Oct 2025 Authors 1Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China Byron Lamont - Corresponding author Curtin University, Perth, Australia 3College of Science Engineering & Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia 1Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.