Phyllocladus

Phyllocladus
Phyllocladus alpinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Araucariales
Family: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Phyllocladus
Rich. ex Mirb.
Type species
Phyllocladus billardieri
Richard ex de Mirbel
Species

Five; see text

Synonyms
  • Brownetera Richard ex Trattinnick
  • Robertia Richard ex Carrière
  • Thalamia Sprengel

Phyllocladus, the celery pines, is a small genus of conifers, now usually placed in the family Podocarpaceae.[1] Species occur mainly in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Malesia in the Southern Hemisphere, though P. hypophyllus ranges into the Philippines, a short way north of the equator.

  1. ^ James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Timber Press: Portland, OR, USA. ISBN 978-0-88192-974-4.