Pseudosalix

{{Short description|Extinct genus of flowering plant}}

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Eocene}}

| image = Pseudosalix handleyi as Potentilla byrami holotype USNM 36857 img3.jpg

| image_caption = flower, USNM P36857

| genus = Pseudosalix

| parent_authority = Boucher, Manchester, & Judd

| species = handleyi

| authority = Boucher, Manchester, & Judd

| synonyms=

• Antholithes polemonioides {{small|R.W. Brown, 1929}}
• Antholithes sp. 6 {{small|R.W. Brown, 1934}}
• Potentilla? byrami {{small|Cockerell, 1925}}

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Pseudosalix is an extinct genus of flowering plants placed in the family Salicaceae, a possible sister to the tribe Saliceae. The genus has one described species, Pseudosalix handleyi{{cite journal |last1=Boucher |first1=L. D. |last2=Manchester |first2=S. |last3=Judd |first3=W. |year=2003 |title=An extinct genus of Salicaceae based on twigs with attached flowers, fruits, and foliage from the Eocene Green River Formation of Utah and Colorado, USA |url=https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.90.9.1389 |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=90 |issue=9 |pages=1389–1399 |doi=10.3732/ajb.90.9.1389 |pmid=21659238}} and is known from undescribed fossils as well.{{cite journal |last1=Dillhoff |first1=R.M. |last2=Leopold |first2=E.B. |last3=Manchester |first3=S.R. |year=2005 |title=The McAbee flora of British Columbia and its relations to the Early-Middle Eocene Okanagan Highlands flora of the Pacific Northwest |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=151–166 |doi=10.1139/e04-084|bibcode=2005CaJES..42..151D |url=http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/mcabee/mcabeefossils.pdf }}