Falcatifolium

Taxobox
name = "Falcatifolium"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Pinophyta
classis = Pinopsida
ordo = Pinales
familia = Podocarpaceae
genus = "Falcatifolium"
genus_authority = de Laub.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Falcatifolium angustum"
"Falcatifolium falciforme"
"Falcatifolium gruezoi"
"Falcatifolium papuanum"
"Falcatifolium sleumeri"
"Falcatifolium taxoides"

"Falcatifolium" is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. The genus includes evergreen dioecious shrubs and large trees of up to 36 meters. Five species are presently recognized. The genus was first described by de Laubenfels in 1969, and is composed of species formerly classified in genus "Dacrydium".

Genus "Facatifolium" ranges from New Caledonia to the Malay Peninsula, including New Guinea, the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Borneo, and the Obi and Riau Islands, and the Philippine island of Mindoro.

References

*de Laubenfels, David J. 1969. A revision of the Malesian and Pacific rainforest conifers, I. Podocarpaceae, in part. "Journal of the Arnold Arboretum" 50:274-314.
*de Laubenfels, David J. 1988. Coniferales. P. 337-453 in "Flora Malesiana", Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.