“…Further comparison of the fossil material with the extant Alismataceae genera or species that have similar morphological characters was based on publications on floral morphological and developmental information, such as those by Kaul (1967), Argue (1973), Chanda et al (1988), Thulin (1995), McCullough (1997), Haynes et al (1998a, b), Cook (1998), Charlton (1999), Cameron et al (2003), Novelo (2003), Kozlowski et al (2008), Lehtonen (2009), Li and Zhou (2009), Furness and Banks (2010), Lehtonen and Gordon (2010), Allen (2015), de Egea Elsam (2015), Hazarika and Borthakur (2015), Remizowa et al (2017), Stevens (2001), Iwamoto et al (2018), Jiménez (2018), Lehtonen (2018), Leme et al (2021), and Chen et al (2022). Finally, the fossil specimens were also compared to flowers of extant Alismataceae through direct observation of herbarium materials (Herbario Nacional de Mexico‐MEXU and Herbario Jerzy Rzedowski‐QMEX).…”