Dacrycarpus

Dacrycarpus
	Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Araucariales
Family:	Podocarpaceae
Genus:	Dacrycarpus; (Endlicher) de Laubenfels
Type species
	Dacrycarpus dacrydioides; (A. Richard) de Laubenfels
Species
	†D. carpenterii; D. cinctus (Pilg.) de Laub.; D. compactus (Wasscher) de Laub.; D. cumingii (Parl.) de Laub.; D. dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub.; D. expansus de Laub.; D. imbricatus (Blume) de Laub.; D. kinabaluensis (Wasscher) de Laub.; D. steupii (Wasscher) de Laub.; D. vieillardii (Parl.) de Laub.;
Synonyms
	Bracteocarpus Bobrov & Melikian; Laubenfelsia Bobrov & Melikian;

Dacrycarpus is a genus of conifers belonging to the family Podocarpaceae.^[3] The genus includes nine species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs to 55–60 metres (180–197 ft) in height.^[4]

Species

The species of Dacrycarpus range from New Zealand and Fiji, across New Caledonia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Myanmar and southern China. The greatest diversity (five species) exists in New Guinea.

Phylogeny of Dacrycarpus^[5]^[6]

D. vieillardii (Parlatore) de Laubenfels

D. dacrydioides (Richard) de Laubenfels

D. cumingii (Parlatore) de Laubenfels

D. imbricatus (Blume) de Laubenfels

D. compactus (Wasscher) de Laubenfels

D. expansus de Laubenfels

	D. cinctus (Pilger) de Laubenfels

	D. kinabaluensis (Wasscher) de Laubenfels

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Dacrycarpus cinctus	Borneo, Sulawesi, Maluku, and New Guinea
	Dacrycarpus compactus	New Guinea
	Dacrycarpus cumingii	Borneo, Sumatra, and the Philippines
	Dacrycarpus dacrydioides	New Zealand
	Dacrycarpus expansus	New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)
	Dacrycarpus imbricatus	Cambodia, southern China, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam
	Dacrycarpus kinabaluensis	Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
	Dacrycarpus steupii	Borneo, Sulawesi, the Philippines, and New Guinea
	Dacrycarpus vieillardii	New Caledonia

References

^ G. J. Jordan. 1995. Extinct conifers and conifer diversity in the Early Pleistocene of western Tasmania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 84(3): 375-387. "Two new, extinct species of conifer are described from Early to possibly Middle Pleistocene sediments at Regatta Point, western Tasmania. Dacrycarpus carpenterii Jordan, sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae) has morphological similarities to extant D. dacrydioides from New Zealand."
^ ^a ^b "Dacrycarpus (Endl.) de Laub". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
^ Christopher N. Page. 1990. "Podocarpaceae" pages 332-346. In: Klaus Kubitzki (general editor); Karl U. Kramer and Peter S. Green (volume editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume I. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-0-387-51794-0
^ James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Timber Press: Portland, OR, USA. ISBN 978-0-88192-974-4.
^ Stull, Gregory W.; Qu, Xiao-Jian; Parins-Fukuchi, Caroline; Yang, Ying-Ying; Yang, Jun-Bo; Yang, Zhi-Yun; Hu, Yi; Ma, Hong; Soltis, Pamela S.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Li, De-Zhu; Smith, Stephen A.; Yi, Ting-Shuang; et al. (2021). "Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms". Nature Plants. 7 (8): 1015–1025. Bibcode:2021NatPl...7.1015S. bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.03.13.435279. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00964-4. PMID 34282286. S2CID 232282918.
^ Stull, Gregory W.; et al. (2021). "main.dated.supermatrix.tree.T9.tre". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14547354.v1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

Dacrycarpus At: Podocarpaceae At: The Gymnosperm Database

[1] G. J. Jordan. 1995. Extinct conifers and conifer diversity in the Early Pleistocene of western Tasmania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 84(3): 375-387. "Two new, extinct species of conifer are described from Early to possibly Middle Pleistocene sediments at Regatta Point, western Tasmania. Dacrycarpus carpenterii Jordan, sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae) has morphological similarities to extant D. dacrydioides from New Zealand."

[powo-2] "Dacrycarpus (Endl.) de Laub". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 February 2026.

[pagepodocarpaceae-3] Christopher N. Page. 1990. "Podocarpaceae" pages 332-346. In: Klaus Kubitzki (general editor); Karl U. Kramer and Peter S. Green (volume editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume I. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-0-387-51794-0

[eckenwalder2009-4] James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. Conifers of the World. Timber Press: Portland, OR, USA. ISBN 978-0-88192-974-4.

[5] Stull, Gregory W.; Qu, Xiao-Jian; Parins-Fukuchi, Caroline; Yang, Ying-Ying; Yang, Jun-Bo; Yang, Zhi-Yun; Hu, Yi; Ma, Hong; Soltis, Pamela S.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Li, De-Zhu; Smith, Stephen A.; Yi, Ting-Shuang; et al. (2021). "Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms". Nature Plants. 7 (8): 1015–1025. Bibcode:2021NatPl...7.1015S. bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.03.13.435279. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00964-4. PMID 34282286. S2CID 232282918.

[6] Stull, Gregory W.; et al. (2021). "main.dated.supermatrix.tree.T9.tre". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14547354.v1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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