Afrocarpus dawei
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Afrocarpus dawei
| Afrocarpus dawei | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Pinales |
| Family: | Podocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Afrocarpus |
| Species: | A. dawei |
| Binomial name | |
| Afrocarpus dawei (Stapf) C.N.Page |
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Afrocarpus dawei is an evergreen coniferous tree native to the Afromontane forests of the East African highlands, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The podocarps are associated with the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, where they were characteristic of the cool, moist southern Gondwana flora. Gondwana broke up into the continents of South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. Antarctica is the southernmost continent and encompasses the South Pole. Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided by the Transantarctic Mountains, between 160 and 30 million years ago. As Africa drifted north it became hotter and drier, and the podocarps generally retreated to the cool moist highlands of eastern and southern Africa.
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