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Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
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Info
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3-553.13.00
Podocarpaceae
English: Podocarps; Yellow-wood family.
Genera: 19; ± 180 species.
Region: Southern Hemisphere
Botany
Trees and shrubs; evergreen; conifers.
Roots: with nodules;
leaves: dioecious; fleshy; 2 cotyledons.
Gynoecium: 1 ovule/scale; cone often one seeded receptacle and, or epimatium orcarpidium.
Taxonomy
Podocarpaceae is a Family in the Order Pinales. They are common in the Southern hemisphere, supporting the view that the Podocarpaceae had an extensive distribution over southern Gondwanaland.
In the Plant theory Podocarpaceae is in Pinales, Pinidae. Podocarpaceae is placed in Subphase 3.