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Phyllocladus alpinus, the mountain toatoa or mountain celery pine, is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found only in New Zealand. The form of this plant ranges from a shrub to a small tree of up to seven metres in height.[1] This species is found in both the North and South Islands.[2] An example occurrence of P. alpinus is within the understory of beech/podocarp forests in the north part of South Island, New Zealand.[3]

Phyllocladus alpinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnosperms
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Phyllocladus
Species:
P. alpinus
Binomial name
Phyllocladus alpinus

The species contains the flavan-3-ols catechin, epicatechin and phylloflavan (ent-epicatechin-3-δ-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-β-hydroxypentanoate).[4]

Phyllocladus alpinus pollen cones and phylloclades.
Phyllocladus alpinus pollen cones and phylloclades.

Conservation status


In both 2009 and 2012 it was deemed to be "Not Threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System,[5] and this New Zealand classification was reaffirmed in 2018.[6]


See also



References


  1. Leonard Cockayne. 1921. The Vegetation of New Zealand, Published by W. Engelmann, 364 pages
  2. Eagle, Audrey (2008). Eagle's complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand volume one. Wellington: Te Papa Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780909010089.
  3. C. Michael Hogan. 2009
  4. Phylloflavan, a characteristic constituent of Phyllocladus species. Lai Yeap Foo, Liana Hrstich and Christian Vilain, Phytochemistry, Volume 24, Issue 7, 1985, Pages 1495–1498, doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)81052-3
  5. "Archeria traversii | New Zealand Plant Conservation Network". nzpcn.org.nz. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  6. de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla, J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.M.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I; Hindmarsh-Walls, R. (1 May 2018). "Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 22: 54. OCLC 1041649797.

Further reading




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Phyllocladus alpinus es una especie de conífera perteneciente a la familia Podocarpaceae. Es originaria de Nueva Zelanda.



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