Phyllocladus_alpinus

<i>Phyllocladus alpinus</i>

Phyllocladus alpinus

Species of conifer

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]

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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.

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

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  1. [1]
    Leonard Cockayne. 1921. The Vegetation of New Zealand, Published by W. Engelmann, 364 pages
  2. [2]
    Eagle, Audrey (2008). Eagle's complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand volume one. Wellington: Te Papa Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780909010089.
  3. [3]
    C. Michael Hogan. 2009
  4. [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. [5]
    Stephanie L. Sopow; John Bain (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. [6]
    "Archeria traversii | New Zealand Plant Conservation Network". nzpcn.org.nz. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  7. [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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