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Parasitaxus
Sign in to saveParasitaxus usta, also known in French as cèdre rabougri, is a rare species of conifer of the family Podocarpaceae, and the sole species of the genus Parasitaxus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPinopsida
- OrderPinales
- FamilyPodocarpaceae
Native toNew Caledonia
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Podocarpaceae
- Collections
- MNHN, ID
- Recorded in
- Nouvelle-CaléDonie, New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
- References
Parasitaxus usta, also known in French as cèdre rabougri, is a rare species of conifer of the family Podocarpaceae, and the sole species of the genus Parasitaxus.
== Description == It is a woody shrub up to endemic to the remote, densely forested areas of New Caledonia, first discovered and described by Vieillard in 1861. The first definitive report that it was a parasite was in 1959.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parasitaxus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.