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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Bois Bouchon
Description
Family Podocarpaceae
Trees
or shrubs
evergreen
, dioecious or rarely monoecious. Leaves decussate, subopposite, or spirally arranged
; blade
scalelike, subulate
, or linear
to elliptic
, stomatal
lines
abaxial
or present on all surfaces. Pollen cones terminal
, solitary or clustered in leaf axils
, or borne in spikelike complexes; individual cones pedunculate
or sessile; microsporophylls
numerous
, spirally arranged, with distinct
adaxial
and abaxial surfaces; microsporangia 2; pollen 2(or 3) -saccate in Chinese species, (rarely nonsaccate) . Seed-bearing structures terminal or axillary
, solitary, occasionally spikelike, comprising few to several spirally arranged bracts; all or only apical bracts fertile
, smooth
or warty; basal bracts sometimes fused and succulent (together with peduncle) to form a "receptacle," or obsolete
; ovule (inverted
) or inclined
in Chinese species. Seed drupelike or nutlike, wholly or (in Dacrydium) partly enveloped in a sometimes colored
and succulent epimatium derived from fertile ovulate scale. Cotyledons 2.
Eighteen genera and ca.
180 species: tropical
, subtropical
, and S temperate
zones, mainly in S hemisphere but extending to montane
tropical Africa, Central America, and Japan; four genera and 12 species (three endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: River banks and lake shores on ultramafic soils.[2]
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
()
- Order:
Pinales
()
- Family:
Podocarpaceae
()
- Endlicher, 1847, Nom. Cons.
- Podocarp Family
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
()
- Tribe:
Anemoneae
()
- Genus:
Retrophyllum
()
- P. Miller, 1754
- Specific epithet:
minor
- (Carrière) C.N.Page
- Botanical name: - Retrophyllum minor (Carrière) C.N.Page
- Specific epithet:
minor
- (Carrière) C.N.Page
- Genus:
Retrophyllum
(
- Tribe:
Anemoneae
(
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
(
- Family:
Podocarpaceae
(
- Order:
Pinales
(
- Class:
Pinopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Basionym : Podocarpaceae Nageia minorBasionym author : (Carrière)A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Retrophyllum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
R. comptonii · R. minor (Bois Bouchon) · R. minus · R. piresii · R. rospigliosii · R. vitiense · R. vitiensis
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Further Reading
- Farjon, A. (1998a): World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers, Royal Botanical Garden, Kew
- Farjon, A. 1994. Annotations to: Conservation status listing of conifers of the world dated 2 February 1994.
- Jaffre, T., Bouchet, P. and Veillon, J.-M. 1998. Threatened plants of New Caledonia: Is the system of protected areas adequate? Biodiversity and Conservation 7(1): 36.
- Laubenfels, D.J. de. 1972. Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances. Paris: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
- Page, C.N. 1988. New and maintained genera in the conifer families Podocarpaceae and Pinaceae. Notes From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 45(2): 377-395.
- 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
- Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7144316
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15780373
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:946469-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 946469-1
- IUCN ID: 34108
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 887624
Footnotes
- Liguo Fu, Yong Li & Robert R. Mill "Podocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 78. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
