Interesting Facts
Description
Family Cupressaceae
Trees
or shrubs
evergreen
, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves decussate or in whorls of 3, scalelike and then often dimorphic
with flattened facial leaves and keeled
lateral
leaves, or needlelike particularly in juvenile plants
, often with an abaxial
resin gland
. Pollen cones terminal
or axillary
, solitary, maturing and shed annually; microsporophylls
6-16, decussate or whorled
, each bearing (2 or) 3-6(-9) pollen sacs
; pollen wingless. Seed cones usually terminal, solitary, globose
, ovoid
, or oblong
, dehiscent
or indehiscent when mature
in 1st or 2nd(or 3rd) year; cone scales developing after ovules originate in bract axils; bracts almost completely enveloped by cone scales, free
only at apex; ovules 1-numerous per bract axil, erect
; cone scales of mature cones 3-16, flat or peltate, woody, leathery, or succulent, 1-20-seeded. Seeds winged
or not; wings
derived from seed coat
. Cotyledons usually 2, rarely 3-6. Germination epigeal.
Nineteen genera and ca.
125 species: worldwide; eight genera (one introduced
) and 46 species (16 endemic, 13 introduced) in China.[1]
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:
Pinopsida
()
- Burnett
- Order:
Pinales
()
- Family:
Cupressaceae
()
- Richard ex Bartling, 1830, nom. cons.
- Cypress Family
- Genus:
Athrotaxis
()
- D. Don, 1838
- Specific epithet:
araucarioides
- Brongn. ex Parl.
- Botanical name: - Athrotaxis araucarioides Brongn. ex Parl.
- Specific epithet:
araucarioides
- Brongn. ex Parl.
- Genus:
Athrotaxis
(
- Family:
Cupressaceae
(
- Order:
Pinales
(
- Class:
Pinopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Brongn. ex Parl. Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 16(2.2): 496 1868 [mid Jul 1868]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Athrotaxis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. cupressoides (Pencil Pine) · A. laxifolia (Summit Cedar) · A. selaginoides (King Billy Pine)
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Further Reading
- Wang Wen-tsai, Cheng Wan-chün, Fu Li-kuo & Chu Cheng-de. 1978. Cupressaceae. In: Cheng Wan-chün & Fu Li-kuo, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 7: 313-398.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 21, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10807277
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15874177
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:261710-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 261710-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3709709
Footnotes
- Liguo Fu, Yong-fu Yu, Robert P. Adams & Aljos Farjon "Cupressaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 62. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
