Described as a new early angiosperm genus, but a fossil synonym of Ephedra according to Yang, 2014; Herendeen et al., ... [details]
Included in Ephedraceae by Novikoff & Barabasz-Krasny, 2015, although not mentioned in the treatment of Yang, 2014. [details]
Systematic placement uncertain; Novikoff & Barabasz-Krasny, 2015, include in Ephedraceae, but this seems unlikely ... [details]
Previously published as Liaoxia Cao & Wu in Chin. Sci. Bull. (Chin. Ed.) 42: 1765 (1997), also in Chin. Sci. Bull. ... [details]