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Lepidothamnus

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Lepidothamnus
Template:Regnum:Plantae
Template:Divisio:Pinophyta
Template:Classis:Pinopsida
Template:Ordo:Pinales
Template:Familia:Podocarpaceae
Template:Genus:Lepidothamnus
species

L. fonkii
L. intermedius
L. laxifolius

Lepidothamnus is a genus of conifers belonging to the Podocarp family, Podocarpaceae. The genus includes three species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs, and creepers. L. intermedius and L. laxifolius are native to New Zealand. L. fonkii is native to the Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregion of southern Chile, where it grows as a low shrub or creeper in moorlands and bogs.