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{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Saxegothea conspicua 3.jpg |status = NT |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Gardner, M. |date=2013 |title=''Saxegothaea conspicua'' |volume=2013 |page=e.T32053A2809854 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T32053A2809854.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> |genus = Saxegothaea |parent_authority = [[John Lindley|Lindl.]] |species = conspicua |authority = Lindl. }} '''''Saxegothaea''''' is a [[genus]] comprising a single [[species]], '''''Saxegothaea conspicua'''''. It is a [[Pinophyta|conifer]] in the podocarp family [[Podocarpaceae]], native to southern [[South America]]. It grows in [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]] from 35° to 46° South latitude; in its northernmost natural distribution it grows between 800 and 1000 (2600–3300 ft) m above sea level and in the south it lives at sea level. The species is most often known by its genus name, or sometimes as '''female maniu''' (a translation of its name in Spanish) and '''Prince Albert's yew'''; in South America it is known as '''mañío hembra''' or '''maniú hembra'''. The genus name of ''Saxegothaea'' is in honour of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Franz August Carl Albert Emanuel von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha]] (1819–1861), who was the consort of [[Queen Victoria]] from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> Lindley wrote "This remarkable plant, to which His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to permit one of his titles to be given, and which will probably rank among the most highly valued of our hardy evergreen trees, is a native of the mountains of Patagonia, where it was found by Mr. William Lobb, forming a beautiful tree 30 feet high." When he published the plant in J. Hort. Soc. London vol.6 on page 258 in 1851.<ref name="Powo">{{cite web |title=''Saxegothaea'' Lindl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:11697-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=9 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref> It is a slow-growing, long-lived evergreen [[tree]] growing to 15–25 m (50–80 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. The [[Bark (botany)|bark]] is thin and flaky to scaly, dark purple-brown. The [[leaf|leaves]] are arranged in an irregular spiral; they are lanceolate, 1.5–3 cm long, 2 mm broad, fairly hard with a prickly spine tip, dark green above, and with two glaucous blue-white [[stomata]]l bands below. The [[conifer cone|cones]] are 1 cm long, with 15-20 soft scales; usually only 2-4 scales on each cone are fertile, bearing a single [[seed]] 3 mm in diameter. ''Saxegothaea'' is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to the [[Valdivian temperate rain forests]] of southern [[Chile]] and adjacent parts of [[Argentina]], where it is generally found in association with ''[[Pilgerodendron|Pilgerodendron uviferum]]'' and ''[[Fitzroya cupressoides]]''. The wood has a good quality and is used in furniture and barrels.
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