Athrotaxidoideae

Athrotaxidoideae Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The extant Athrotaxis on top and the extinct Athrotaxites on the bottom
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Cupressales
Family:	Cupressaceae
Subfamily:	Athrotaxidoideae Quinn
Genera
Athrotaxis † Athrotaxites

Athrotaxidoideae is a subfamily of conifers in the Cupressaceae group (sometimes called the cypress family). There is one extant genus known as Athrotaxis . There is an extinct genus known as Athrotaxites that belongs to this subfamily which existed during the Cretaceous. ^[1] Genetic studies show that athrotaxidoids might be close relatives of the redwood family. ^[2]

References

1. Escapa, Ignacio H.; Gandolfo, Maria A.; Crepet, William L.; Nixon, Kevin C. (2016). "A new species of Athrotaxites (Athrotaxoideae, Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous Raritan Formation, New Jersey, USA". Botany. 94 (9): 831–845. doi:10.1139/cjb-2016-0061. hdl: 11336/40558 . ISSN   1916-2790.
2. Stull, Gregory W.; Qu, Xiao-Jian; Parins-Fukuchi, Caroline; Yang, Ying-Ying; Yang, Jun-Bo; Yang, Zhi-Yun; Hu, Yi; Ma, Hong; Soltis, Pamela S.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Li, De-Zhu; Smith, Stephen A.; Yi, Ting-Shuang (August 2021). "Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms" . Nature Plants. 7 (8): 1015–1025. doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00964-4. ISSN   2055-0278.