With the excitement and the renewed enthusiasm generated by our refurbished equipment in early 2010 - a landmark for the MMPND, I found myself in a situation reminiscent of the bamboo section humble beginnings (now in need of a serious up-dating). The main difference is that today I don't have to create little gifs of foreign characters in order to dispaly words in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc. My great inspiration for the bamboos was Prof. D. Ohrnberger's 1999 publication "The Bamboos of the World". A similarly impressive equivalent mega reference for Conifers is Chris. J. Earle's Gymnosperm Database. I also appreciated Jean Louis Helardot's work on Abies, Picea and Pinus. Only three genera covered but with equal comprehensiveness and as great an attention to details.
As I did for bamboos, I will barely improve the taxonomic aspect of conifers for it is already extremely well done but I will bring a lot more vernacular, hopefully with equal accuracy for as much as this is possible with common names. I am going to enjoy working on this section for the best part of 2010, I hope that readers will equally appreciate the efforts.

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List of Genera

Abies (close to finished)
Acmopyle
Actinostrobus (close to finished)
Afrocarpus (close to finished)
Agathis (closed to finished)
Amentotaxus
Araucaria (close to finished)
Athrotaxis
Austrocedrus (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Callitris
Callitropsis (close to finished)
Calocedrus (close to finished)
Casuarina (not a conifer but started)
Cathaya (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Cedrus (close to finished)
Cephalotaxus (checklist done,  names just starting)
Chamaecyparis
Chrysolarix
Cryptomeria    (close to finished)
Cunninghamia    (close to finished)
Cupressocyparis
Cupressus
Cyparissia
Dacrycarpus    (close to finished)
Dacrydium
Decussocarpus
Diselma
Ducampopinus (done)
Falcatifolium
Fitzroya (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Fokienia (checklist done,  names just starting)
Frenela
Glyptostrobus (close to finished - 1 sp. only)
Halocarpus
Hesperocyparis
Juniperus (advanced but still plenty of work)
Keteleeria (close to finished)
Laricopsis
Larix
Leichhardtia
Lepidothamnus
Libocedrus (close to finished)
Manoao (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Metasequoia
Microbiota
Microcachrys
Microstrobus
Nageia (close to finished)
Neocallitropsis (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Neocupressus (close to finished)
Nothotsuga (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Octoclinis
Papuacedrus (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Parasitaxus
Phyllocladus (close to finished)
Picea
Pilgerodendron (closed to done - 1 sp. only)
Pinus (close to finished)
Podocarpus
Prumnopitys (close to finished)
Pseudolarix (done)
Pseudotsuga (close to finished)
Putranjiva (close to finished)
Retrophyllum (close to finished)
Saxegothea
Sciadopitys (closed to finished 1 sp. only - )
Sequoia    (close to finished)
Sequoiadendron    (close to finished)
Taiwania
Taxodium (close to finished)
Taxus (close to finished)
Tetraclinis (close to finished - 1 sp. only)
Thuja
Thujopsis (close to finished)
Torreya   (close to finished)
Tsuga
Widdringtonia (close to finished)
Wollemia    (close to finished)
Xanthocyparis (close to finished)

Indexes for all genera of the Conifer section

References for all genera of the Conifer section