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macrophyllus

Taxon

Podocarpus macrophyllus (Thunb.) Sweet

Protologue Hort. Suburb. Lond. 211. 1818IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Least Concern
Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house.  CD18.jpg

Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house. CD18.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house.   (1).jpg

Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house. (1).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house.   (2).jpg

Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house. (2).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house.   (3).jpg

Podocarpus macrophyllus--Japan. Toyota.. Isao's house. (3).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Myanmar, Taiwan; introduced into Alabama, Arkansas, Great Britain, Hawaii, Korea, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Not collected.

July 18, 2003

Location

Japan

Location Remarks

Toyota Toyota Municipal Art Museum

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Podocarpaceae

Genus

Podocarpus

Specific Epithet

macrophyllus

Authorship

(Thunb.) Sweet

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 3.5

Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.

Threat status

Least Concern

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

0.2

Global rank

#747 of 1,090

Top 1,000 globally

This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 4 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.

Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →