Podocarpus macrophyllus foliage and mature seed cones
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Gymnospermae
Division:
Pinophyta
Class:
Pinopsida
Order:
Araucariales
Family:
Podocarpaceae Endl.
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Acmopylaceae Melikian & Bobrov 1997
Bracteocarpaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Dacrycarpaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Dacrydiaceae Bobrov & Melikian 2000
Falcatifoliaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Halocarpaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Lepidothamnaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Microcachrydaceae Doweld & Reveal 1999
Microstrobaceae Doweld & Reveal 2001
Nageiaceae Fu 1992
Parasitaxaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Pherosphaeraceae Nakai 1938
Phyllocladaceae Bessey 1907
Prumnopityaceae Melikian & Bobrov 2000
Saxegothaeaceae Gaussen ex Doweld & Reveal 1999
Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.[1] It contains 19 genera if Phyllocladus is included and Manoao and Sundacarpus are recognized.
The family is a classic member of the Antarctic flora, with its main centres of diversity in Australasia, particularly New Caledonia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and to a slightly lesser extent Malesia and South America (primarily in the Andes Mountains). Several genera extend north of the equator into Indochina and the Philippines. Podocarpus reaches as far north as southern Japan and southern China in Asia, and Mexico in the Americas, and Nageia into southern China and southern India. Two genera also occur in sub-Saharan Africa, the widespread Podocarpus and the endemic Afrocarpus.
Parasitaxus usta is unique as the only known parasitic gymnosperm. It occurs on New Caledonia, where it is parasitic on another member of the Podocarpaceae, Falcatifolium taxoides.[2]
The genus Phyllocladus is sister to the Podocarpaceae sensu stricto.[2] It is treated by some botanists in its own family, the Phyllocladaceae.[3]
^James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-974-4.
^ abWilliam T. Sinclair, R. R. Mill, M. F. Gardner, P. Woltz, T. Jaffré, J. Preston, M. L. Hollingsworth, A. Ponge, and M. Möller. 2002. "Evolutionary relationships of the New Caledonian heterotrophic conifer, Parasitaxis usta (Podocarpaceae), inferred from chloroplast trnL-F intron/spacer and nuclear rDNA ITS2 sequences". Plant Systematics and Evolution233 (1–2): 79–104. doi:10.1007/s00606-002-0199-8
^Christopher N. Page. 1990. "Phyllocladaceae" pages 317–319. In: Klaus Kubitzki (general editor); Karl U. Kramer and Peter S. Green (volume editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-51794-0
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