Common Names - Podocarpus Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Endl. | Total Number of genera - 19 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Gymnosperm | Total Number of species - 200 |
Plant forms - Evergreen trees & shrubs |
World Distribution - S. hemisphere to Japan & Central Am., tropical Africa. he 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 Indo-China 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, |
Comments - Evergreen resinous softwood trees. |