About Lepidothamnus Tree

Lepidothamnus is a kind with three kinds in the family of the (Podocarpaceae) within the resinous wood plants (Pinophyta). The kinds were in former times in the then polyphyletischen kind Dacrydium contained to de Laubenfels (1969) this kind into several monophyletische divided.

There is bushes or small these kinds is getrenntgeschlechtig, (dizisch) or monzisch. The sheets are not needle-shaped but them have in the youth phase lanzettliche sheets, later sheets, which are crude and leather-like.The ungestielten, male taps sit individually at the branches. The female taps sit individually at the ends of the branches, with in each case to two fertilen Zapfenschuppen. At the dark seeds, which mature in the second year, is a small asymmetrical Arillus.The area of the kind Lepidothamnus is strongly disjunkt: a kind is endemic in southern Chile (fire country) and the other two kinds are domestic in New Zealand .