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| Sundacarpus amarus (Blume) C. Karl Ludwig Ritter von Blume ( 9 June 1796 - 3 February 1862) was a German - Dutch Botanist. N. Page |
Sundacarpus is a genus of conifers containing a single species Sundacarpus amarus, belonging to the family Podocarpaceae. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere Conifers with 18-19 genera and about 170-200 species of Evergreen Trees and Sundacarpus was designated a genus by C. N. Page in 1989; formerly it had been classified variously as a species of Podocarpus or of Prumnopitys. Podocarpus is a Genus of Conifers the most numerous and widely distributed of the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. Prumnopitys is a Genus of Conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae.
Sundacarpus is a large evergreen tree, 10-60 m in height, with a trunk from 12-140 cm in diameter. In Botany, an Evergreen plant is a plant having leaves all year round The leaves are 5-15 cm long and narrow. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis.
S. amarus is native to parts of Australia and Malesia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the boundary of the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones Malesia was first identified as a Floristic In Australia, the genus is found primarily on the Atherton Tableland and adjacent parts of northeastern coastal Queensland. The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It is quite common in New Guinea, New Britain, and New Ireland, where they are often found in montane forests together with southern beech (Nothofagus). New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known This article discusses the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea New Ireland ( Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan) is a large Island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 8650 km² in area Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of about 35 Species of Trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic Sundacarpus is also found on the Indonesian islands of Buru, Halmahera, Morotai, Sulawesi, Lombok, Flores, Timor, Sumbawa, Java, Sumatra, and Sabah province on the island of Borneo; also Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines. Buru is an Island in the Maluku province of Indonesia. It is located west of Ambon and Seram. Halmahera (also Jilolo or Gilolo is the largest Island in the Maluku Islands. Morotai Island (695 sq mi/1800 km² is an island located in the Halmahera group of eastern Indonesia 's Maluku Islands (Moluccas Sulawesi (formerly known as Celebes, ˈsɛlɛbiz is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Lombok (population 2950105 in 2005) is an Island in West Nusa Tenggara province Indonesia. Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an Island arc with an estimated area of 14300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia Timor is an Island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, north of the Timor Sea. Sumbawa is an Indonesian Island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain with Lombok to the west Flores to the east Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470000 km² and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two Sabah is a Malaysian state located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost Island in the Philippines. Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important Island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country with Visayas The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP
References and external links
- Conifer Specialist Group (1998). Sundacarpus amarus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 05 May 2006.
- de Laubenfels, D. J. (1988). Coniferales. P. 337-453 in Flora Malesiana, Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
- Page, C. N. (1989). New and maintained genera in the conifer families Podocarpaceae and Pinaceae. Notes of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh 45 (2): 377-395.
- Sundacarpus amarus at the Gymnosperm Database
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