Phyllocladus alpinus

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Phyllocladus alpinus
Mountain Toatoa (Phyllocladus alpinus).jpg
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Araucariales
Family: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Phyllocladus
Species:
P. alpinus
Binomial name
Phyllocladus alpinus

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]

Contents

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 Governors Bush Mount Cook 2.JPG
Phyllocladus alpinus pollen cones and phylloclades.

Pests and diseases

This species plays host to the New Zealand endemic beetles Agapanthida morosa and Agapanthida pulchella . [5]

Conservation status

In both 2009 and 2012 it was deemed to be "Not Threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, [6] and this New Zealand classification was reaffirmed in 2018. [7]

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. ↑ Sopow, Stephanie L.; Bain, John (14 September 2017). "A checklist of New Zealand Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera), excluding Lamiinae" (PDF). New Zealand Entomologist. 40 (2): 55–71. doi:10.1080/00779962.2017.1357423. ISSN   0077-9962. Wikidata   Q56166058.
  6. ↑ "Archeria traversii | New Zealand Plant Conservation Network". nzpcn.org.nz. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  7. ↑ 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.

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