Dacrydium

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

Familia: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Dacrydium
Species: D. araucarioides – D. balansae – D. beccarii – D. comosum – D. cornwallianum – D. cupressinum – D. elatum – D. ericoides – D. gibbsiae – D. gracile – D. guillauminii – D. leptophyllum – D. lycopodoides – D. magnum – D. medium – D. nausoriense – D. nidulum – D. novo-guineense – D. pectinatum – D. spathoides – D. xanthandrum
Paleospecies: †D. microphyllum – †D. waimumuensis
Name

Dacrydium Sol. ex G. Forst. Pl. Esc. 80. (1786)

Type species: Dacrydium cupressinum Sol. ex G.Forst., Pl. Esc.: 80 (1786)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Corneria A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(7): 62 (2000)
Gaussenia A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(7): 62 (2000)
Metadacrydium Baum.-Bod. ex Melikyan & A.V.Bobrov, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(7): 63 (2000)

Homonyms

Dacrydium Lamb. Descr. Pinus 1: 93. (1806)
Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb. Descr. Pinus [Lambert] 1: 93. (1807)

References

Solander, D.C. 1786. Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus 80.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Dacrydium 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. Dacrydium. 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. Dacrydium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Jan. 2016.

Dacrydium is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. Sixteen species of evergreen dioecious trees and shrubs are presently recognized. The genus was first described by Solander in 1786, and formerly included many more species, which were divided into sections A, B, and C by Florin in 1931. The revisions of de Laubenfels and Quinn (see references), reclassified the former section A as the new genus Falcatifolium, divided Section C into new genera Lepidothamnus, Lagarostrobos and Halocarpus, and retained Section B as genus Dacrydium.

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Dacrydium araucarioides	New Caledonia
	Dacrydium balansae	New Caledonia
	Dacrydium beccarii	Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands
	Dacrydium comosum	Peninsular Malaysia
	Dacrydium cupressinum	New Zealand
	Dacrydium cornwalliana	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
	Dacrydium elatum	Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
	Dacrydium ericoides	Malaysia
	Dacrydium gibbsiae	Borneo, Mount Kinabalu
	Dacrydium gracile	Malaysia
	Dacrydium guillauminii	New Caledonia
	Dacrydium leptophyllum	Indonesia
	Dacrydium lycopodioides	New Caledonia
	Dacrydium magnum	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
	Dacrydium medium	Indonesia, Malaysia
	Dacrydium nausoriense	Fiji
	Dacrydium nidulum	Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
	Dacrydium novo-guineense	Papua New Guinea
	Dacrydium pectinatum	Borneo, Hainan, Philippines, Sumatra
	Dacrydium spathoides	Indonesia
	Dacrydium xanthandrum	Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines

Distribution

The natural range of Dacrydium extends from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji and the Solomon Islands through Malesia (New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines), to Thailand and southern China.
References

de Laubenfels, David J. 1969. A revision of the Melanesia and Pacific rainforest conifers, I. Podocarpaceae, in part. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 50:274-314.
Quinn, C.J. 1982. Taxonomy of Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb. emend. de Laub. (Podocarpaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 30: 311-320.