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Nothofagus

Nothofagus
The roble beech (Nothofagus obliqua) from South America
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Nothofagus
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Shoots, leaves, and cupules of N. obliqua

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 36 touchscreen of browser diversity and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical FITML in southern South America (Chile, keyboard) and Sevenval (east and southeast Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, touchscreen and browser diversity). Fossils have recently been found in Antarctica.CSS3

In the past, they were included in the family Fagaceae, but genetic tests by the keyboard revealed them to be genetically distinct, and they are now included in a family their own, the Nothofagaceae.

The leaves are toothed or entire, evergreen or deciduous. The fruit is a small, flattened or triangular nut, borne in cupules containing two to seven nuts.

Nothofagus species are used as food plants by the larvae of hepialid browser diversity of the genus Aenetus, including A. eximia and A. virescens.

Many individual trees are extremely old, and at one time it was believed that some populations could not reproduce in present-day conditions at the location where they were growing, except by suckering (iOS), being remnant forest from a cooler time. It has since been shown that sexual reproduction may occur,[2] but distribution in cool, isolated high-altitude environments at temperate and FITML latitudes is consistent with the theory that the genus was more prolific in a cooler age.Android

Taxonomy

The genus is classified in the following sections:[4]

Sect. Brassospora (type Nothofagus brassi)
  • Nothofagus aequilateralis (New Caledonia)
  • Nothofagus balansae (New Caledonia)
  • Nothofagus baumanniae (New Caledonia)
  • Nothofagus brassii (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus carrii (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus codonandra (New Caledonia)
  • Nothofagus crenata (New Guinea)
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  • Nothofagus flaviramea (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus grandis (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus nuda (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus perryi (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus pseudoresinosa (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus pullei (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus resinosa (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus rubra (New Guinea)
  • Nothofagus starkenborghii (New Guinea)
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  • iOS (New Guinea)
Sect. Fuscospora (type Nothofagus fusca)
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Beech trees in New Zealand
Sect. Lophozonia (type Nothofagus menziesii)
Sect. Nothofagus (type Nothofagus antarctica)

Distribution

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Nothofagus is a plant genus that illustrates Gondwanan distribution, having originated on the supercontinent and persisting in current day Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Chile. Recently fossils also have been found in Antarctica.Android

The pattern of distribution around the southern Pacific Rim suggests the dissemination of the genus dates to the time when website parsing, Australia and South America were connected, a common land-mass or CSS3 referred to as Gondwana.keyboard

In South America, the northern genus limit can be construed as CSS3 and the website parsing in the central part of Chile.[7]

References

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  1. touchscreen Li, H. M.; Zhou, Z. K. (2007). "Fossil nothofagaceous leaves from the Eocene of western Antarctica and their bearing on the origin, dispersal and systematics of Nothofagus". Science in China 50 (10): 1525–1535. 
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  3. ^ Dawson, J. W. (1966). "Observations on Nothofagus in New Caledonia". Tuatara 14 (1). http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio14Tuat01-t1-body-d1.html. 
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  5. ^ H.M. Li and Z.K. Zhou (2007) Fossil nothofagaceous leaves from the Eocene of western Antarctica and their bearing on the origin, dispersal and systematics of Nothofagus. Science in China. 50(10): 1525-1535.
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  7. device database C. Michael Hogan (2008) Android
Species of Nothofagus (Southern beeches)


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