Sundacarpus
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| Sundacarpus amarus (Blume) C.N.Page |
Sundacarpus is a genus of conifers containing a single species Sundacarpus amarus, belonging to the family Podocarpaceae. Sundacarpus was designated a genus by C.N.Page in 1989; formerly it had been classified variously as a species of Podocarpus or of Prumnopitys.
Sundacarpus is a large evergreen tree, 10-60 m in height, with a trunk from 12-140 cm in diameter. The leaves are 5-15 cm long and narrow.
S. amarus is native to parts of Australia and Malesia. In Australia, the genus is found primarily on the Atherton Tableland and adjacent parts of northeastern coastal Queensland. it is quite common in New Guinea, New Britain, and New Ireland, where they are often found in montane forests together with southern beech (Nothofagus). Sundacarpus is also found on the Indonesian islands of Buru, Halmahera, Morotai, Sulawesi, Lombok, Flores, Timor, Sumbawa, Java, Sumatra, and Sabah province on the island of Borneo; also Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines.
[edit] References and external links
- Conifer Specialist Group (1998). Sundacarpus amarus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 05 May 2006.
- de Laubenfels, D. J. (1988). Coniferales. P. 337-453 in Flora Malesiana, Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
- Page, C. N. (1989). New and maintained genera in the conifer families Podocarpaceae and Pinaceae. Notes of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh 45 (2): 377-395.
- Sundacarpus amarus at the Gymnosperm Database
