Sundacarpus
Sundacarpus is a genus of conifers containing a single species, belonging to the Podocarp family, Podocarpaceae. Sundacarpus was designated a genus in 1989, when S. amarus, which had formerly been classified variously as a species of Podocarpus, Stachycarpus, and Prumnopitys was assigned its own new genus by Page.
Sundacarpus are large evergreen trees, 10-60 meters in height, with a trunk from 12-140 cm in diameter. Leaves are 5-15 cm long and narrow.
S. amarus is native to parts of Australia and Malesia. In Australia, the genus is found primarily on the Atherton Tableland and adjacent parts of northeastern coastal Queensland. it is quite common in New Guinea, New Britain, and New Ireland, where they are often found in montane forests together with southern beech (Nothofagus). Sundacarpus is also found on the Indonesian islands of Buru, Halmahera, Morotai, Sulawesi, Lombok, Flores, Timor, Sumbawa, Java, Sumatra, and Sabah province on the island of Borneo; also Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines.
Reference
- de Laubenfels, David J. 1988. Coniferales. P. 337-453 in Flora Malesiana, Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
- Page, C. N. 1989. New and maintained genera in the conifer families Podocarpaceae and Pinaceae. Notes of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh 45(2): 377-395.
