Sundacarpus is a genus of conifers containing a single species Sundacarpus amarus, belonging to the family Podocarpaceae. 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. In Australia it is treated as Prumnopitys amara (Blume) de Laub.
Description
Sundacarpus amarus is a large evergreen tree, in height, with a trunk from in diameter. The leaves are long and narrow.
Distribution and habitat
Sundacarpus amarus is native to parts of
Australia and
Malesia. In Australia, the genus is found only in
Queensland, primarily on the Atherton Tableland and adjacent parts of northeastern coastal Queensland. It is quite common in
New Guinea,
New Britain, and New Ireland, where it is often found in montane forests together with
southern beech (
Nothofagus).
Sundacarpus amarus is also found on the Indonesian islands of
Buru,
Halmahera,
Morotai,
Sulawesi,
Lombok,
Flores,
Timor,
Sumbawa, Java,
Sumatra, in
Sabah province on the island of
Borneo and on
Mindanao and
Luzon in the
Philippines.
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de Laubenfels, D. J. (1988). Coniferales. pp. 337–453 in Flora Malesiana, Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
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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.
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