Southern beeches facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Nothofagus
N.obliqua shoot with fruits
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Nothofagaceae Kuprian.
Genus:	Nothofagus Blume
Species
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Nothofagus is a kind of plant, also called southern beech. It is a tree which can reach 35 m tall. Nothofagus is found in South America, New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. There are 34 species, considering pollen morphology four sections are recognized, i.e. Brassospora, Fuscospora, Lophozonia, and Nothofagus.

• • Nothofagus, Southamerican species;
• Nothofagus Antarctica
• Nothofagus betuloides
• Nothofagus dombeyi
• Nothofagus nitida
• Nothofagus pumilio
  • Brassospora, New Guinea and New Caledonia species;
• Nothofagus aequilateralis
• Nothofagus balansae
• Nothofagus baumanniae
• Nothofagus brassii
• Nothofagus carrii
• Nothofagus codonandra
• Nothofagus crenata
• Nothofagus discoidea
• Nothofagus flaviramea
• Nothofagus grandis
• Nothofagus nuda
• Nothofagus perryi
• Nothofagus pseudoresinosa
• Nothofagus pullei
• Nothofagus resinosa
• Nothofagus rubra
• Nothofagus starkenborghii
• Nothofagus stylosa
• Nothofagus womersleyi
  • Fuscospora, Southamerican, Australian and in some Oceania Island;
• Nothofagus alessandri
• Nothofagus fusca
• Nothofagus gunnii
• Nothofagus solandri
• Nothofagus truncata

N.alpina rauli beech

• • Lophozonia, in places of Southamerica and Oceania.
• Nothofagus alpina
• Nothofagus cunninghamii
• Nothofagus glauca
• Nothofagus macrocarpa
• Nothofagus menziesii
• Nothofagus moorei
• Nothofagus obliqua

Images for kids

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  Shoots, leaves, and cupules of N. obliqua

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  Beech trees in New Zealand

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  The Nothofagus plant genus illustrates the distribution on fragments of the old supercontinent Gondwana: Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Argentina, and Chile. Fossils show that the genus originated on Gondwana.