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Hymenaea allendis
''Hymenaea allendis'' is an extinct legume species in the family Fabaceae described from a single isolated fossil flower in amber. The species is known from a Late Oligocene to Early Miocene location in southern Mexico. Unlike the coeval extinct species ''Hymenaea mexicana'' and ''Hymenaea protera'' which are placed closer to the living species ''Hymenaea verrucosum'' of Africa, ''H. allendis'' is closer in relation to the neotropical species of ''Hymenaea''.
==History and classification==
''Hymenaea allendis'' is known from a solitary fossil flower which is an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Mexican amber. The specimen is currently housed in the Eliseo Palacios Aguilera Paleontological Museum in Chiapas, Mexico.〔 Mexican amber is recovered from fossil-bearing rocks in the Simojovel region of Chiapas, Mexico. The amber dates from between 22.5 million years old, for the youngest sediments of the Balumtun Sandstone, and 26 million years old for the oldest La Quinta Formation. This age range straddles the boundary between the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene and is complicated by both formations being secondary deposits for the amber; the age range is therefore only the youngest that it might be. The fossil was examined by paleobotanists Laura Calvillo-Canadell and Sergio Cevallos-Ferriz of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Lourdes Rico-Arce of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom; Calvillo-Canadell, Cevallos-Ferriz and Rico-Arce's description of the species was published in a 2010 article in the ''Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology''. The etymology of the chosen specific name ''allendis'' is in reference to the town Simojovel de Allende which is located within the amber mining area.〔
When described, ''H. allendis'' was the second ''Hymenaea'' species to be identified from fossils found in Mexican amber.〔 The first species was ''Hymenaea mexicana'', which was described by Poinar and Brown 2002, and which was to be the source for the resin which Mexican amber is derived from. Both ''H. protera'', found in Dominican amber, and ''H. mexicana'' are placed closer to the single living old-world species, ''H. verrucosum'', which is placed in the ''Hymenaea'' sect. ''Trachylobium''. The smooth ovary with a small stipe and wide nectariferous disc are traits found only in the new world ''Hymenaea'' section ''Hymenaea''.〔
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