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Podocarpus costaricensis

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5462434 ↗
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Podocarpus costaricensis is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is endemic to Costa Rica, where it is known from four locations in San José Province. It grows in lowland and lower montane tropical rainforest from 70 to 1,700 meters elevation. The species was described in 1990, and its distribution and ecology are poorly understood.

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“Podocarpus costaricensis” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Podocarpus, costaricensis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Podocarpus costaricensis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.