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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pinophyta
Classis: Pinopsida
Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Dacrycarpus
Species: D. cinctus – D. compactus – D. cumingii – D. dacrydioides – D. expansus – D. imbricatus – D. kinabaluensis – D. steupii – D. vieillardii

Paleospecies: †D. microfolius
Name

Dacrycarpus (Endl.) de Laub., J. Arnold Arbor. 50: 315 (1969)

Type species: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub., J. Arnold Arbor. 50: 337 (1969)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Bracteocarpus A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan, Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol., n.s., 103(1): 58 (1998)
Laubenfelsia A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(7): 60 (2000)

References

de Laubenfels, D.J. (1969) Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 50: 315. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Dacrycarpus in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Jan. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Dacrycarpus. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 1 2016.
Jordan, G.J., Carpenter, R.J.B., Bannister, J.M.C., Lee, D.E.D, Mildenhall, D.C.E. & Hill, R.S. 2011. High conifer diversity in Oligo-Miocene New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 24(2): 121–136. DOI: 10.1071/SB11004 Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2016. Dacrycarpus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Jan. 2016.

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.

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

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."
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
James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Timber Press: Portland, OR, USA. ISBN 978-0-88192-974-4.

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