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Description
Genus Dacrydium
Trees
or shrubs
evergreen
, dioecious. Leaves usually dimorphic
: juvenile leaves spreading
, not 2-ranked, linear
to needlelike or subulate
, rarely falcately curved
; adult
leaves crowded, normally appressed
, scalelike or subulate, 2-5 mm, hard, base
decurrent apex often incurved
. Pollen cones terminal
or axillary
, solitary, sessile; pollen 2-saccate. Seed-bearing structures terminal, usually solitary, small, composed of several bracts normally only 1 fertile
; sterile
bracts not fleshy
(sometimes becoming fleshy and brightly colored
at maturity) ; ovule 1, borne abaxially on middle
part of fertile bract, initially partly inverted
, becoming more erect
at maturity. Epimatium only partly enveloping seed and less than 1/3 its length
, forming a somewhat membranous, asymmetric
, cupular sheath
around its base. Seed maturing in 1st year, suberect or ± inclined
.
Twenty-one species: from China and Myanmar to Fiji Islands and New Zealand; one species in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: Exposed ridges in stunted mossy montane forest .[2]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Pinopsida
()
- Order:
Pinales
()
- Family:
Papilionoidea
()
- Genus:
Dacrydium
()
- Solander ex G. Forster, Pl. Esc. 80 [Fl. Ins. Austr. Prod. 92]. 1786.
- Pine
- Specific epithet:
comosum
- Corner
- Botanical name: - Dacrydium comosum Corner
- Specific epithet:
comosum
- Corner
- Genus:
Dacrydium
(
- Family:
Papilionoidea
(
- Order:
Pinales
(
- Class:
Pinopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Farjon A., 11-Jan-2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dacrydium
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 68 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. aciculare · D. albidum · D. araucarioides · D. araucaroides · D. balansae · D. beccarii · D. bidwilii · D. comosum · D. cornwalliana · D. cornwallianum · D. cupressiforme · D. cupressinum (New Zealand Red Pine) · D. elatum · D. elegantulum hendersoni · D. ericioides · D. ericoides · D. ericoides de · D. falcicorne · D. ferrugineum · D. fitzgeraldi · D. foncki · D. fonckii · D. fonki · D. frankiinii · D. franklinii · D. gibbsiae · D. gracile · D. gracile de · D. gracilis · D. guillaumii · D. guillauminii · D. huonense · D. hyalinum · D. imbricatus · D. kirkii · D. leptophyllum · D. lycopodioides · D. magnum · D. magnum de · D. mayi · D. medium · D. medium de · D. modioliforme · D. nausoriense · D. nausoriense de · D. nausoriensis · D. nidulum · D. nidulum de · D. novo-guineense · D. occidentale · D. ockelmanni · D. pacificum · D. panamensis · D. pectinatum · D. pectinatum de · D. pectinatus · D. pierrei · D. sinuosum · D. spathoides · D. spathoides de · D. tasmanicum · D. taxoides · D. thuioides · D. vieillardii · D. vitreum · D. xanthandrum · D. × suprinii · D. zebra
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Further Reading
- Chua, L. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for endemic trees of Peninsular Malaysia.
- De Laubenfels, D.J. 1988. Coniferales. Flora Malesiana series I - spermatophyta, flowering plants 10(3).
- Farjon, A. et al. 1998. Data collection forms for conifer species completed by the IUCN/SSC Conifer Specialist Group between 1996 and 1998.
- Whitmore, T.C. (ed.) 1972. Tree Flora of Malaya - a manual for foresters Vol. 1. Hong Kong: Longman.
- de Laubenfels, D.J. 1988. Coniferales. Flora Malesiana series I - spermatophyta, flowering plants 10(3).
- de Laubenfels, D.J. 1998. Completed data collection forms for selected conifer species.
- 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.
- Conifer Database 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 November 23, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 23, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7141438
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-4111
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14705801
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:828275-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 828275-1
- IUCN ID: 31407
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 732234
Footnotes
- Liguo Fu, Yong Li & Robert R. Mill "Dacrydium". 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. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
