Biology:Dacrycarpus

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Short description: Genus of conifers

Dacrycarpus
Kahikatea.jpg
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Araucariales
Family: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Dacrycarpus
(Endlicher) de Laubenfels
Type species
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
(A. Richard) de Laubenfels
Species
Synonyms
  • Bracteocarpus Bobrov & Melikian
  • Laubenfelsia Bobrov & Melikian

Dacrycarpus is a genus of conifers belonging to the family Podocarpaceae.[2] The genus includes nine species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs to 55–60 metres (180–197 ft) in height.[3]

Species

The species of Dacrycarpus range from New Zealand and Fiji, across New Caledonia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Myanmar and southern China . The greatest diversity (five species) exists in New Guinea.

Phylogeny of Dacrycarpus[4][5]

D. vieillardii (Parlatore) de Laubenfels

D. dacrydioides (Richard) de Laubenfels

D. cumingii (Parlatore) de Laubenfels

D. imbricatus (Blume) de Laubenfels

D. compactus (Wasscher) de Laubenfels

D. expansus de Laubenfels

D. cinctus (Pilger) de Laubenfels

D. kinabaluensis (Wasscher) de Laubenfels

Image Scientific name Distribution
Dacrycarpus cinctus Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Dacrycarpus compactus Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Dacrycarpus cumingii Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Kahikatea.jpg Dacrycarpus dacrydioides New Zealand
Dacrycarpus expansus Papua New Guinea.
Dacrycarpus imbricatus.JPG Dacrycarpus imbricatus Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam
Dacrycarpus kinabaluensis Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
Dacrycarpus steupii Indonesia.
Dacrycarpus vieillardii New Caledonia.

References

  1. G. J. Jordan. 1995. Extinct conifers and conifer diversity in the Early Pleistocene of western Tasmania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 84(3): 375-387. "Two new, extinct species of conifer are described from Early to possibly Middle Pleistocene sediments at Regatta Point, western Tasmania. Dacrycarpus carpenterii Jordan, sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae) has morphological similarities to extant D. dacrydioides from New Zealand."
  2. Christopher N. Page. 1990. "Podocarpaceae" pages 332-346. In: Klaus Kubitzki (general editor); Karl U. Kramer and Peter S. Green (volume editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume I. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN:978-0-387-51794-0
  3. James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Timber Press: Portland, OR, USA. ISBN:978-0-88192-974-4.
  4. Stull, Gregory W.Expression error: Unrecognized word "et". (2021). "Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms". Nature Plants 7 (8): 1015–1025. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00964-4. PMID 34282286. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-00964-4. 
  5. Stull, Gregory W. (2021). main.dated.supermatrix.tree.T9.tre. Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14547354.v1. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Gene_duplications_and_genomic_conflict_underlie_major_pulses_of_phenotypic_evolution_in_gymnosperms/14547354. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1500691 entry