Prumnopitys taxifolia (Sol. ex D.Don) de Laub.

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Name scientific

Prumnopitys taxifolia (Sol. ex D.Don) de Laub., Blumea 24: 190 (1978)

Preferred name

Prumnopitys taxifolia (Sol. ex D.Don) de Laub.

Taxonomy reference

Page, C.N. 2019: New and maintained genera in the taxonomic alliance of Prumnopitys s.l. (Podocarpaceae), and circumscription of a new genus: Pectinopitys. New Zealand Journal of Botany 57(3): 137–153.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

de Laub.

Original authors

D.Don

Authors

(Sol. ex D.Don) de Laub.

Publication place

de Laubenfels, D.J. 1978: The genus Prumnopitys (Podocarpaceae) in Malesia. Blumea 24: 189–190.

Year published

1978

Publication page

190

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dacrydium taxifolium Sol. ex D.Don

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Prumnopitys taxifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Podocarpaceae

Genus

Prumnopitys

Species

taxifolia

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Asplenium polyodon G.Forst.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Brigantiaea chrysosticta (Hook.f. & Taylor) Hafellner & Bellem.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Frullania monocera (Hook.f. & Taylor) Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Leptogium azureum sensu Galloway

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.

CHR (2 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Pannaria Delise ex Bory

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Pertusaria DC.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

CHR (2 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Podocarpus spicatus R.Br. ex Mirb.

Description

Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 1·25 m. diam., bark dark, falling in thick flakes. Juveniles with slender, flexuous, divaricating branchlets, lvs brownish, 5-10 × 1-2 mm., acute. Adults with lvs 1-1·5 cm. × 1-2 mm., subdistichous, linear, straight to subfalcate, obtuse, often apiculate, coriac., dark green, ± glaucous below. Male strobili in spikes, 3-5 cm. long, 10-30 per spike, ┴ axis; apiculus subacute. Ovules 3-10 per spike c. 4 cm. long, on short axillary branchlets; peduncle not swollen. Seeds 5-9 mm. long, subglobose, apiculus obtuse; black, drupaceous.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.