= Pectinopitys ferruginea (G.Benn. ex D.Don in Lamb.) C.N.Page

Occasional tree in kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) dominated riparian forest. Some specimens with moderate amounts of fruiting cones present.

Recently moved from Prumnopitys to a new genus Pectinopitys (Page 2019), of which this species is the type. Of course the name is not being accepted in the New Zealand Plant Names Database because the Australian Prumnopitys ladei, also transferred to Pectinopitys by Page (2019), isn't being accepted in Pectinopitys by the Australian Plant Names Index. This is an interesting but irrelevant argument for the New Zealand species (i.e. type of Pectinopitys) for which there is abundant evidence on the basis of cone development, embryology, chemistry, morphology and molecular data which shows that our species is distinct from Prumnopitys. Page (2019) merely completed what Bobrov & Melikyan (2000) started.

Needless to say I am using Pectinopitys for our species.

Reference

Bobrov, A.V.F.Ch.; Melikyan, A.P. 2000: Morphology of female reproductive structures and an attempt of the construction of phyogenetic system of orders Podocarpales, Cephalotaxales and Taxales. Botanicheskii Zhurnal (Moscow & Lenningrad) 85(7):50–68.

Page, C.N. 2019: New and maintained genera in the taxonomic alliance of Prumnopitys s.l (Podocarpaceae), and circumscription of a new genus: Pectinopitys. New Zealand Journal of Botany 57(1): 137-153.