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Encyclopedia > Lepidothamnus
Lepidothamnus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Podocarpaceae
Genus: Lepidothamnus
species

L. fonkii
L. intermedius
L. laxifolius

Lepidothamnus is a genus of conifers belonging to the Podocarp family, Podocarpaceae. The genus includes three species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs, and creepers. L. intermedius and L. laxifolius are native to New Zealand. L. fonkii is native to the Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregion of southern Chile, where it grows as a low shrub or creeper in moorlands and bogs.


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Bomen-struiken consumenten - BOMEN-STRUIKEN.NL (41 words)
Lepidothamnus is een geslacht van coniferen behorend tot de familie van Podocarpaceae.
Het geslacht omvat drie soorten van tweehuizige, groenblijvende bomen, struiken en kruipende planten:
Lepidothamnus fonkii in zuidelijk Chili, waar het als lage struik of kruipende plant in moerassen groeit.
Camilla Porter (768 words)
There has been exceptionally little scientific observation in the region, and the writings of early explorers, especially from Britain (Darwin 1839) and Sweden (Skottsberg 1911) are still valuable.
Detailed data for Magellanic moorland are not yet available, but it is known to be dominated by cushion-forming plants, a dwarf gymnosperm Lepidothamnus fonkii, and graminoids (Moore 1979).
These are are also characteristic of high altitudes, and produce a vegetation that has all the appearance of tundra, but without permafrost (Pisano V. 1977; Pisano 1983).
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