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Description
Family Podocarpaceae
Trees
or shrubs
evergreen
, dioecious or rarely monoecious. Leaves decussate, subopposite, or spirally arranged
; blade
scalelike, subulate
, or linear
to elliptic
, stomatal
lines
abaxial
or present on all surfaces. Pollen cones terminal
, solitary or clustered in leaf axils
, or borne in spikelike complexes; individual cones pedunculate
or sessile; microsporophylls
numerous
, spirally arranged, with distinct
adaxial
and abaxial surfaces; microsporangia 2; pollen 2(or 3) -saccate in Chinese species, (rarely nonsaccate) . Seed-bearing structures terminal or axillary
, solitary, occasionally spikelike, comprising few to several spirally arranged bracts; all or only apical bracts fertile
, smooth
or warty; basal bracts sometimes fused and succulent (together with peduncle) to form a "receptacle," or obsolete
; ovule (inverted
) or inclined
in Chinese species. Seed drupelike or nutlike, wholly or (in Dacrydium) partly enveloped in a sometimes colored
and succulent epimatium derived from fertile ovulate scale. Cotyledons 2.
Eighteen genera and ca.
180 species: tropical
, subtropical
, and S temperate
zones, mainly in S hemisphere but extending to montane
tropical Africa, Central America, and Japan; four genera and 12 species (three endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Burnett
- Order:
Araucariales
()
- Family:
Podocarpaceae
()
- Endlicher, 1847, nom. cons.
- Podocarp Family
- Genus:
Afrocarpus
()
- (J. Buchholz & N.E. Gray) C.N. Page, 1989
- Specific epithet:
gaussenii
- (Woltz) C.N.Page
- Botanical name: - Afrocarpus gaussenii (Woltz) C.N.Page
- Specific epithet:
gaussenii
- (Woltz) C.N.Page
- Genus:
Afrocarpus
(
- Family:
Podocarpaceae
(
- Order:
Araucariales
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Gaussen Publication
: Trav. Lab. Forest
. Toulouse
tome 2, sect. 1, vol.
1(2), chap. 20: 120 (1974), without basionym
ref.
Basionym author: (Woltz)
Basionym: Podocarpaceae Podocarpus gaussenii Woltz
Basionym author: (Woltz)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Afrocarpus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. falcatus (Common Yellowood) · A. gracilior (African Podocarpus)
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Further Reading
- Farjon, A. 2001. World Checklist and Bibliograpy of Conifers. 2nd edition. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
- Cheng Wan-chün, Fu Li-kuo & Chao Chi-son. 1978. Podocarpaceae. In: Cheng Wan-chün & Fu Li-kuo, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 7: 398-422.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Afrocarpus gaussenii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5968754
- IUCN ID: 189174
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963799
Footnotes
- Liguo Fu, Yong Li & Robert R. Mill "Podocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 78. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Afrocarpus gaussenii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
