Dacrycarpus dacryoides. 61.1084--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 03. 063.jpg
Native to New Zealand North, New Zealand South (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)
37.87544, -122.238724
Location Remarks
Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales
Family
Podocarpaceae
Genus
Dacrycarpus
Specific Epithet
dacrydioides
Authorship
(A.Rich.) de Laub.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Very high
ED 21.9
Among the most evolutionarily isolated plants known — losing it erases an irreplaceable branch of the plant tree of life.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
1.2
Global rank
#320 of 1,090
Top 1,000 globally
This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 22 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.
Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →