Dacrydium

Dacrydium

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Podocarpaceae
Genus:	Dacrydium Lamb.
Species
Dacrydium araucarioides Dacrydium balansae Dacrydium beccarii Dacrydium comosum Dacrydium cupressinum Dacrydium cornwalliana Dacrydium elatum Dacrydium ericoides Dacrydium gibbsiae Dacrydium gracile Dacrydium guillauminii Dacrydium leptophyllum Dacrydium lycopodioides Dacrydium magnum Dacrydium medium Dacrydium nausoriensis Dacrydium nidulum Dacrydium novo-guineense Dacrydium pectinatum Dacrydium spathoides Dacrydium xanthandrum

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.

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.

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