Pectinopitys C.N.Page

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Pectinopitys' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pectinopitys/). Accessed 2025-04-27.

Family

Podocarpaceae

Species in genus

Pectinopitys ferruginea

Glossary

References

Page, C.N. (2019). New and maintained genera in the taxonomic alliance of Prumnopitys s.l. (Podocarpaceae), and circumscription of a new genus: Pectinopitys

Credits

New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Pectinopitys' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pectinopitys/). Accessed 2025-04-27.

Pectinopitys ferruginea has been placed in the category Least Concern (IUCN), as it is relatively abundant in the wild in New Zealand. Image A. Farjon.

Editorial Note

We have published this stub genus article in 2023 as part of a wider reorganisation of Podocarpaceae articles, to enable a new revision of Podocarpus to be published in 2023. The only species presently treated here is Pectinopitys ferruginea, based on Grimshaw & Bayton (2009).

TC, January 2023.

Described in 2019 to accommodate six of the nine species formerly (and somewhat uncomfortably) placed in Prumnopitys: Pectinopitys exigua (de Laub.) C.N.Page (distributed in Bolivia); Pectinopitys ferruginea (G.Benn. ex D.Don) C.N.Page (New Zealand); P. ferruginoides (Compton) C.N.Page (New Caledonia); Pectinopitys harmsiana (Pilg.) C.N.Page (NW South America); Pectinopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) C.N.Page (NE Queensland, Australia) and Pectinopitys standleyi (J.Buchholz & N.E.Gray) C.N.Page (Costa Rica) (Page 2019).