Description
Subfamily Faboideae
Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]
Genus Dacrycarpus
Trees
or shrubs
evergreen
, dioecious (very rarely monoecious) ; trunk
straight; main branches spreading
or drooping
; branchlets
drooping or ascending
, dense. Leaves dimorphic
: juvenile leaves 2-ranked and forming an oblong-ovate branchlet outline, linear
, not scalelike; adult
leaves needlelike or scalelike, falcate
, bilaterally or bifacially flattened, or not flattened, 0.8-1.5 mm.
Pollen cones lateral
(rarely terminal
), solitary or few together; microsporophylls
numerous
, imbricate; microsporangia 2, abaxial
. Seed-bearing structures terminal and often borne on short, lateral branchlets, pedunculate
, with appressed
or spreading, bractlike leaves at base
of peduncle; apical 1 or 2 bracts fertile
; basal bracts fused to form a succulent, warty receptacle; ovule inverted
. Epimatium wholly enveloping seed, united
with fertile bract(s) and together bearing a short, free
apex forming an asymmetrically projecting
crest
on immature
seed-bearing structure. Seed large.
Nine species: from China and Myanmar to Fiji Islands and New Zealand; one species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Pinopsida
()
- Order:
Pinales
()
- Family:
Papilionoidea
()
- Subfamily:
Faboideae
()
- Tribe:
Genisteae
()
- Genus:
Dacrycarpus
()
- (Endlicher) de Laubenfels, J. Arnold Arbor. 50: 315. 1969.
- Dacrycarpus
- Specific epithet:
imbricatus
- (Blume) de Laub.
- Botanical name: - Dacrycarpus imbricatus (Blume) de Laub.
- Specific epithet:
imbricatus
- (Blume) de Laub.
- Genus:
Dacrycarpus
(
- Tribe:
Genisteae
(
- Subfamily:
Faboideae
(
- Family:
Papilionoidea
(
- Order:
Pinales
(
- Class:
Pinopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Bracteocarpus imbricatus (Blume) Bobrov & Melikyan
Notes
Basionym : Podocarpaceae Podocarpus papuanusBasionym author : (Ridl.) Basionym: Podocarpaceae Podocarpus kawaiiBasionym author: (Hayata) Basionym: Podocarpaceae Podocarpus imbricatusBasionym author: (Blume) Publishing author: Ridl. Publication : in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. ix. 158 (1916). Publishing author: Hayata Publication: in Bull . Econ. Indochine, 1917, xix. 439. Publishing author: Merr. Publication: Philipp. Journ. Sci. 1921, xix. 338 Publishing author: F.Muell. Publication: Phyt. New Hebr. 20 Publishing author: Gaussen Publication: in Trav. Lab. Forest . TouLouse, tome 2, sect. 1, vol.1(2), chap. 20: 142, 160(1974), without basionym ref. Basionym author: (Ridl.) Publishing author: Gaussen Publication: in Trav. Lab. Forest. Toulouse, tome 2, sect. 1, vol. 1(2), chap. 20: 140, 156(1974), without basionym ref. Basionym author: (Hayata) Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Farjon A., 11-Jan-2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dacrycarpus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. acutifolius · D. arcuatus · D. cinctus · D. compactus · D. crenulatus · D. cumingii · D. cummingii · D. cupressiformis · D. dacrydiifolia · D. dacrydiodes · D. dacrydioides (New Zealand Dacryberry) · D. dacrydioides 'Dark Delight' · D. expansus · D. expansus de · D. imbricatus · D. imbricatus var. curvulus · D. imbricatus var. imbricatus · D. imbricatus var. patulus · D. imbricatus var. robustus · D. involutus · D. kinabaluensis · D. lanceolatus · D. leptophylla · D. linearis · D. linifolius · D. mucronatus · D. steupii · D. vieardii · D. vieillardii
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Further Reading
- Farjon, A. 2001. World Checklist and Bibliograpy of Conifers. 2nd edition. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 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
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
- Conifer Database 2006.
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Dacrycarpus imbricatus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5832581
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-4060
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:687949-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 687949-1
- IUCN ID: 42445
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 732218
Footnotes
- "Dacrycarpus". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 79. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
