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This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 2025, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 2025.

Algae

Chlorophytes

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Archaeodunaliella [1]	Gen. et sp. nov		Zhu et al.	Carboniferous–Permian (Kasimovian–Asselian)	Fengcheng Formation	China		A member of the family Dunaliellaceae. The type species is A. junggarensis.
Morelletpora sinica [2]	Sp. nov	Valid	Schlagintweit, Xu & Zhang	Late Cretaceous (Campanian)	Yigeziya Formation	China		A member of Dasycladales belonging to the family Triploporellaceae.

Phycological research

• A study on the reproduction of Eugonophyllum , based on fossils from the Carboniferous (Gzhelian) Maping Formation (Guizhou, China), is published by Wang et al. (2025). ^[3]

Non-vascular plants

Bryophyta

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Tricosta angeiophoros [4]	Sp. nov	Valid	Valois et al.	Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)		Canada (  British Columbia)		A moss belonging to the family Tricostaceae. Published online in 2024; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2025.

Marchantiophyta

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Corsiniopsis [5]	Gen. et sp. nov		Flores & Cariglino	Late Triassic	Potrerillos Formation	Argentina		A liverwort belonging to the group Marchantiales. Genus includes new species C. kurtzii.
Frullania chiapasensis [6]	Sp. nov	Valid	Mamontov, Feldberg, Schäfer-Verwimp & Gradstein in Feldberg et al.	Miocene	Mexican amber	Mexico		A liverwort, a species of Frullania .
Hyponychium [7]	Gen. et sp. nov		Paulsen et al.	Eocene	Anglesea amber	Australia		A liverwort belonging to the group Jungermanniales. The type species is H. pentadactylum.
Marchantites elegans [5]	Comb. nov		(Barale & Ouaja)			Tunisia		Moved from Hepaticites elegans Barale & Ouaja (2002).
Radula panduriformis [7]	Sp. nov		Paulsen et al.	Eocene	Anglesea amber	Australia		A liverwort, a species of Radula .
Thysananthus patrickmuelleri [6]	Sp. nov	Valid	Feldberg, Gradstein, Schäfer-Verwimp & Mamontov in Feldberg et al.	Miocene	Mexican amber	Mexico		A liverwort belonging to the group Porellales and the family Lejeuneeae.

Lycophytes

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Selaginella jorelisiae [8]	Sp. nov	Valid	López-García, Schmidt & Regalado in López-García et al.	Miocene	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic		A species of Selaginella .
Zosterophyllum baoyangense [9]	Sp. nov		Huang & Xue in Huang et al.	Devonian (Pragian)	Mangshan Group	China

Ferns and fern allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Coniopteris haifanggouensis [10]	Sp. nov		Li & Tian in Li et al.	Middle Jurassic	Haifanggou Formation	China		A member of the family Dicksoniaceae.
Krameropteris calophyllum [11]	Sp. nov		Li in Li & Meng	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar		A member of the family Dennstaedtiaceae.
Millerocaulis santamartaensis [12]	Sp. nov		Koppelhus et al.	Late Cretaceous	Snow Hill Island Formation	Antarctica		A member of the family Osmundaceae.

Conifers

Pinaceae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Pinus longlingensis [13]	Sp. nov		Song & Wu in Song et al.	Pliocene	Mangbang Formation	China		A pine.
Pinus mangkangensis [14]	Sp. nov		Yao & Su in Yao et al.	Eocene	Mangkang Basin	China		A pine.
Pinuxylon anatolica [15]	Sp. nov		Akkemik & Mantzouka	Miocene	Hançili Formation	Turkey		A member of the family Pinaceae.

Podocarpaceae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Metapodocarpoxylon brasiliense [16]	Sp. nov		Conceição et al.		Missão Velha Formation	Brazil

Gnetophyta

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Ephedra transversa [17]	Sp. nov		Song & Wu in Li et al.	Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation	China		A species of Ephedra .

Flowering plants

Monocots

Poales

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Chimonobambusa manipurensis [18]	Sp. nov		Bhatia & Srivastava in Bhatia et al.	Pleistocene		India		A species of Chimonobambusa .

Monocot research

• Khan et al. (2025) describe fossil material of palms with one metaxylem vessel in each fibrovascular bundle from the Maastrichtian-Danian Deccan Intertrappean Beds (India), and interpret the studied fossils as Cocos-type palms belonging to the subfamily Arecoideae that likely grew in a tropical rainforest. ^[19]
• Evidence from the study of phytoliths from the Giraffe locality (Northwest Territories, Canada), indicative of presence of palms close to the Arctic Circle over an extensive period of time during the Eocene (approximately 48 million years ago), is presented by Siver et al. (2025). ^[20]

Basal eudicots

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Palaeosinomenium indicum [21]	Sp. nov		Kumar, Manchester & Khan	Cretaceous-Paleocene (Maastrichtian-Danian)	Deccan Intertrappean Beds	India		A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in late 2024, published fully in 2025.
Proteaceaefolia [22]	Gen. et sp. nov		Carpenter & McLoughlin	Paleogene		Chile		A member of the family Proteaceae. The type species is P. araucoensis.

Superasterids

Apiales

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Astropanax eogetem [23]	Sp. nov		Pan et al.	Miocene		Ethiopia		A species of Astropanax .

Icacinales

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Miquelia yenbaiensis [24]	Sp. nov		Hung, Huang & Li in Hung et al.	Miocene	Co Phuc Formation	Vietnam		A species of Miquelia .

Superrosids

Fabales

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Peltophorum xingjianii [25]	Sp. nov		Zhao, Wang & Huang in Zhao et al.	Miocene	Sanhaogou Formation	China		A species of Peltophorum .
Pueraria qinghaiensis [26]	Sp. nov		Cao & Xie in Cao et al.	Miocene	Youshashan Formation	China		A species of Pueraria .

Sapindales

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Acer pretataricum [27]	Sp. nov		Xiao & Wang in Dong et al.	Miocene	Hannuoba Formation	China		A maple.

Superrosid research

• Hazra & Khan (2025) report the discovery of a diverse assemblage of legume fruits and leaflet remains from the Rajdanda Formation (India), interpreted as evidence of the presence of a warm and humid tropical environment during the Pliocene. ^[28]
• A study on the anatomy of wood of extant members of the genus Ficus and fossil wood with affinities to Ficus, and on its implications for determination of the organs preserved as fossil wood and their habits, is published by Monje Dussán, Pederneiras & Angyalossy (2025). ^[29]

Other angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Menispermites temlyanensis [30]	Sp. nov		Zolina, Golovneva & Grabovskiy	Late Cretaceous–Paleocene (Maastrichtian–Danian)	Tanyurer Formation	Russia (  Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)		A flowering plant with similarities to members of the genus Menispermum .

General angiosperm research

• A study on the timing of the evolution of the flowering plants is published by Ma et al. (2025), who recover the crown group of the flowering plants as likely originating in the Triassic. ^[31]
• Doughty et al. (2025) use a mechanistic model to study the relationship between seed size of flowering plants, their light environment and the size of animals in their environment, and predict a rapid increase of seed size during the Paleocene that eventually plateaued or declined, likely as a result of the appearance of large herbivores that opened the understory, reducing the competitive advantage of plants with large seeds. ^[32]

Other plants

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Fengweioxylon [33]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Jiang et al.	Jurassic	Tiaojishan Formation	China		Fossil wood of a corystosperm. The type species is F. sinense.
Neuromariopteris [34]	Gen. et sp. nov		Šimůnek & Haldovský	Carboniferous (Bashkirian)	Kladno-Rakovník Basin	Czech Republic		A member of Callistophytales. The type species is N. scandens.
Palaeopteridium andrenelii [35]	Sp. nov		Correia & Góis-Marques	Carboniferous (Moscovian)		Portugal		A progymnosperm belonging to the group Noeggerathiales.
Shanxioxylon yangquanense [36]	Sp. nov		Wang & Wan in Wang et al.	Carboniferous (Kasimovian)	Benxi Formation	China		A cordaitalean.
Sinolobotheca [37]	Gen. et sp. nov		Wang et al.	Devonian (Famennian)	Wutong Formation	China		An ovule of a seed plant of uncertain affinities. Genus includes new species S. octa.
Yuzhoua [38]	Gen. et sp. nov		Wang, Lei & Fu	Permian (Asselian)	Lower Shihhotse Formation	China		A plant of uncertain affinities, with similarities to the flowering plants. The type species is Y. juvenilis.
Zaijunia [39]	Gen. et sp. nov		Li et al.	Devonian (Famennian)	Wutong Formation	China		A seed plant belonging to the group Lagenospermopsida and to the family Elkinsiaceae. The type species is Z. biloba.

Other plant research

• Partial leaf representing the first record of a fossil Cycas from Australia is described from the Miocene Stuarts Creek site by Greenwood, Conran & West (2025). ^[40]

Palynology

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Cadargasporites helbyi [41]	Sp. nov		Peyrot et al.	Triassic	Babulu Formation	Timor-Leste
Cadargasporites timorensis [41]	Sp. nov		Peyrot et al.	Triassic	Babulu Formation	Timor-Leste
Planctonites? comasii [41]	Sp. nov		Peyrot et al.	Triassic	Babulu Formation	Timor-Leste
Sparganiaceaepollenites intertrappeansis [42]	Nom. nov		DeBenedetti et al.	Late Cretaceous-Paleocene (Maastrichtian-Danian)	Mandla Formation	India	Sparganiaceaepollenites annulatus Thakre et al. 2024 (junior homonym of S. annulatus De Benedetti, 2023).	Fossil pollen; a replacement name for Sparganiaceaepollenites reticulatus Samant et al. (2022).
Sparganiaceaepollenites oczkowicensis [42]	Nom. nov		DeBenedetti et al.	Miocene		Poland		Fossil pollen; a replacement name for Sparganiaceaepollenites microreticulatus Grabowska & Ważyńska (2009).
Stigmatocystia [43]	Gen. et sp. nov		Strother et al.	Ordovician (Hirnantian)	Sarah Formation	Saudi Arabia		Zygospores of a member of the family Zygnemataceae. The type species is S. divericata.
Zygnema paleopawneanum [43]	Sp. nov		Strother et al.	Ordovician (Hirnantian)	Sarah Formation	Saudi Arabia		Zygospores of a member of the genus Zygnema .

Palynological research

• Nhamutole et al. (2025) study the composition of palynological assemblages from the Permian (Lopingian) strata of the Maniamba Basin (Mozambique), reporting evidence of the presence of plants indicative of lowland fluvial setting. ^[44]
• Evidence from the study of palynofloral assemblages from the Germig Section (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; Tibet, China), interpreted as indicative of a shift from floras dominated by seed ferns and conifers to floras dominated by cheirolepids during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, is presented by Li et al. (2025). ^[45]
• A study on palynofloral assemblages from the Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark (Spain), providing evidence of gradual shift from conifer-dominated floras to ones with increased presence of flowering plants through the Albian–Cenomanian, is published by Rodríguez-Barreiro et al. (2025). ^[46]
• Evidence from the study of palynomorph and palynofacies from the Bahariya Formation (Egypt), interpreted as indicative of warm and humid climate during the early-middle Cenomanian with a short episode of semi-arid to arid conditions during the late early Cenomanian, is presented by Abdelhalim et al. (2025). ^[47]
• Rull (2025) revises purported fossil pollen records of Pelliciera found outside the Neotropics, and argues that only a subset of Cenozoic pollen records from tropical West Africa can be confirmed as likely fossils of members of Pelliciera. ^[48]
• Evidence from the study of fossil pollen from the Dingqinghu Formation (China), indicative of presence of a mixed deciduous and coniferous forest in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Oligocene-Miocene transition, is presented by Xie et al. (2025). ^[49]

General research

• Evidence of changes of composition of gigantopterid-dominated rainforests known from the Longtan Formation (China) during the Lopingian is presented by Shu et al. (2025), who also report evidence of the presence of climbing structures in Gigantonoclea . ^[50]
• Evidence from the study of fossil material from the South Taodonggou Section in the Turpan-Hami Basin (China), interpreted as indicative of presence of a refugium of land vegetation that preserved the stability of food chains during the Permian–Triassic extinction event and might have been one of the source regions for the diversification of terrestrial life in the aftermath of the extinction event, is presented by Peng et al. (2025). ^[51]
• Evidence of a staggered recovery of plant communities from the Sydney Basin (Australia) in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, indicative of the presence of a succession gymnosperm-dominated and lycophyte-dominated plant communities lasting until the early Middle Triassic, is presented by Amores et al. (2025). ^[52]
• Evidence of the presence of a plant community dominated by ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae, similar to extant plant communities such as those from swamp settings from the Parana Forest in northeastern Argentina, is reported from the Jurassic La Matilde Formation (Argentina) by García Massini et al. (2025). ^[53]
• Silva et al. (2025) study the taphonomy of exceptionally preserved plant remains from the Upper Cretaceous Santa Marta Formation (Antarctica). ^[54]
• Evidence from the study of phytoliths from the Lunpola Basin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, interpreted as indicative of presence mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest during the late Oligocene–Early Miocene, is presented by Zhang et al. (2025). ^[55]
• A study on the timing of the uplift of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes, based on composition of fossil plant communities from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (China), is published by Lai et al. (2025). ^[56]
• A study on ancient DNA from sediment cores from lakes in Alaska and Siberia, providing evidence of plant extinctions associated with environmental changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition, is published by Courtin et al. (2025). ^[57]
• El-Saadawi et al. (2025) present an annotated catalog of plant macrofossil remains from Egypt, including fossils ranging from Devonian to Quaternary. ^[58]

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11. Li, C.X.; Meng, F.W. (2025). "A New Species of Krameropteris (Dennstaedtiaceae) from Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar Amber". Taxonomy. 5 (1). 3. doi: 10.3390/taxonomy5010003 .
12. Koppelhus, E.; Vera, E. I.; Coria, R. A.; Currie, P. J.; Reguero, M. A. (2025). "A new species of the fossil fern Millerocaulis (Osmundales: Osmundaceae) from the Snow Hill Island Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 105337. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2025.105337.
13. Song, Z.-H.; Wang, Z.-E.; Cao, R.; Wang, Z.-S.; Wang, H.; Chen, G.-H.; Wu, J.-Y. (2025). "Fossil wood of Pinus from the Pliocene of western Yunnan, China and its palaeoclimatic implications". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 334. 105279. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105279.
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26. Cao, Z.-D.; Xie, S.-P.; Liu, L.-M.; Li, X.-M.; Zhang, S.-H.; Zhang, Y.-H.; Yan, D.-F. (2025). "A moderate elevation and warm-humid climate of the Wulan Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Miocene indicated by Pueraria macrofossils". Journal of Palaeogeography. doi: 10.1016/j.jop.2024.08.012 .
27. Dong, H.; Wu, Y.; Wang, X.; Wang, M.; Ji, D.; Liang, J.; Xiao, L. (2025). "Fossil Samaras of Acer in the Lower Miocene of Central Inner Mongolia, China, and Their Phytogeographical Implications". Diversity. 17 (3). 218. doi: 10.3390/d17030218 .
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30. Zolina, A. A.; Golovneva, L. B.; Grabovskiy, A. A. (2025). "The morphological diversity and distribution of the genus Menispermites (Magnoliopsida) in the Cretaceous of Northern Asia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 28 (1). 28.1.a9. doi: 10.26879/1441 .
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