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CONIFER IN VIETNAM
Indo-China is a hot-spot for conifer diversity, 33 species
of conifer are recognised as indigenous to Vietnam.
In recent years, the Vietnamese coniferous flora has been
expanded by a number of new
records
for the country together with discoveries of a number of new
species for
science.
The biogeography of the Vietnamese coniferous fauna is
characterised by three distinct
elements:
ancient relictual taxa in the climatic refugia of the
countrys mountainous
areas;
endemic species, representing approximately one quarter of
the flora; and
tropical
podocarps, with their origins in the southern hemisphere.
Conifers in Vietnam are distributed in four main, upland,
areas: the north-west; the Hoang Lien Mountains;
limestone mountains of north and north-east Vietnam;
and the Central Highlands .
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