“…of many extant Betula species has been presented by Birks (1968), Lieux (1980), Zavada and Dilcher (1986), Chen (1991), Jones et al (1995), Wang et al (1995), Mäkelä (1996), Fritz and Allesch (1999), Blackmore et al (2003), Wei (2003), Beug (2004), Clegg et al (2005), Karlsdóttir et al (2007Karlsdóttir et al ( , 2008, Li et al (2011a), Miyoshi et al (2011) and Lin et al (2013). The pollen ultrastructure (SEM, transmission electron microscopy [TEM]) of Betula has been described and figured by Zavada and Dilcher (1986), Pehlivan (1987) and Blackmore et al (2003). Fossil pollen showing LM-based morphological affinities to pollen of modern Betula have commonly been assigned to the pollen form-genus Betulapollenites (e.g.…”