New names of fossil Cyperaceae of Northern Eurasia Author Doweld, Alexander B. text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-06-14 356 2 131 144 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.356.2.3 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.2.3 1179-3163 13706075 yperus pliocenicus (Mai & Walther) Doweld , comb. nov. ≡ Dichostylis pliocenicus Mai & Walther (1988: 89) . Type :— MB .Pb.2004/0698 (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin , Germany )—figured by Mai & Walther 1988 : pl. 13, fig. 14. Geography:—Kranichfeld, Weimar, Thuringia , Germany . Stratigraphy:—Pliocene. Fossil status:—Fruits. IFPNI registration record:— 9B5AD826-3F36-45D2-B18C-7F93C54FF013 . Note:—The fossil-species is compared with extant Cyperus on account of the similarity of their fruit structure.