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Podocarpaceae
Sign in to savePodocarpaceae is a large family of mainly southern hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 201 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. It contains 20 genera if Phyllocladus is included and Manoao and Sundacarpus are accepted. The family achieved its maximum diversity in the Cenozoic, making the Podocarpaceae family one of the most diverse in the southern hemisphere.
OverviewAI-generated
Podocarpaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae. It belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta, class Pinopsida, and order Pinales. The family is recognized by the World Register of Marine Species with the authority End. and holds an accepted status. While one source lists its order as Araucariales, it is primarily classified under Pinales.
Records for this family are held by institutions including CAS, INECOL, BRIT, RSA, and ASU. Specimens have been documented in the Philippines, Mexico, China, New Caledonia, and Peru. The family has 213,057 occurrences recorded in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and 63 records in iDigBio, which includes 41 media items.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Firecrawl, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPinopsida
- OrderPinales
- FamilyPodocarpaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 63
- With media
- 41
- Family
- Podocarpaceae
- Collections
- CAS, INECOL, BRIT, RSA, ASU, TENN
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Mexico, China, New Caledonia, Peru, New Zealand, Venezuela, United States
Described at
Gymnosperm families - Podocarpaceae
Description of Podocarpaceae, generated from a DELTA database.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Evolution
- Genera
- List of extant genera
- Extinct genera
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly southern hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 201 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. It contains 20 genera if Phyllocladus is included and Manoao and Sundacarpus are accepted. The family achieved its maximum diversity in the Cenozoic, making the Podocarpaceae family one of the most diverse in the southern hemisphere.
The family is a classic member of the Antarctic flora, with its main centres of diversity in Australasia, particularly New Caledonia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and to a slightly lesser extent Malesia and South America (primarily in the Andes Mountains). Several genera extend north of the equator into Indochina and the Philippines. Podocarpus reaches as far north as southern Japan and southern China in Asia, and Mexico in the Americas, and Nageia into southern China and southern India. Two genera also occur in sub-Saharan Africa, the widespread Podocarpus and the endemic Afrocarpus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Podocarpaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.