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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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