A genus of trees resembling beeches, and for that reason, sometimes
put in the beech family Fagaceae. However, more botanists place
Nothofagus in its own family.
This genus contains species native mostly to Australia, New Zealand
and southern South America, with a few tropical varieties on New Guinea
and New Caledonia. Fossil pollen shows that Nothofagus species existed on Antarctica before it entered the deep freeze. This distribution can only be explained by Nothofagus species existing while they were all joined as Gondwanaland 80 million years ago.
Domain Eucarya
Kingdom Plantae
Division Magnoliophyta (formerly Phylum Tracheophyta)
Class Magnoliopsida (formerly Class Dicotyledonae)
Subclass Hamamelididae
Order Fagales
Family Nothofagaceae
Genus Nothofagus
Subgenus Lophozonia:
Subgenus
Fuscospora:
Subgenus
Nothofagus:
Subgenus
Brassospora:
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N. aequilateralis
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N. balansae
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N. baumanniae
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N. brasii
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N. carii
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N. codonandra
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N. crenata
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N. cuprea ("Southern Beech")
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N. discoidea
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N. flaviramena
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N. grandis
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N. perryi
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N. procera (Raulí) (aka N. nervosa or N. alpina)
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N. pullei
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N. resinosa
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N. rubra
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N. starkenborghii
Subgenera based upon pollen type from
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/sydney/biogeography/bioex.pdf
Trees of Australia at
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~woodlink/ref.htm