Falcatifolium is a genus of conifers of the family Podocarpaceae. The genus includes six species of dioecious shrubs and large trees of up to . The genus was first described by de Laubenfels in 1969, and is composed of species formerly classified in the genus Dacrydium.
The Facatifolium genus ranges from New Caledonia to the Malay Peninsula, including New Guinea, the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Obi and Riau Islands, and the Philippine island of Mindoro.
Falcatifolium taxoides from New Caledonia is the exclusive host of the Parasitaxus usta, the only known parasitic gymnosperm.
Phylogeny Phylogeny of Falcatifolium
References
de Laubenfels, David J. 1969. A revision of the Malesian and Pacific rainforest conifers, I. Podocarpaceae, in part. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 50:274-314. de Laubenfels, David J. 1988. Coniferales. P. 337–453 in Flora Malesiana, Series I, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. de Laubenfels, D. J. 1959. Parasitic conifer found in New Caledonia. Science, 130(3367), 97–97.