Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Family
Chapter:
555.13.00
555.13.00 Podocarpaceae
English: Podocarps; Yellow-wood family.
Botany: 19 genera; ± 180 species; Southern Hemisphere; evergreen trees and shrubs; conifers.
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.
Introduction
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