Tags: Conifer.
Glyptostrobus is a small genus of conifers in the family Cupressaceae. The sole living species Glyptostrobus pensilis is native to subtropical southeastern China from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan and also very locally in northern Vietnam and Borikhamxai Province of eastern Lao PDR near the Vietnam border.The genus formerly had a much wider range covering most of the Northern Hemisphere including the high Arctic in the Paleocene and Eocene.