Deciduous Nothofagus (Fagaceae) trees near Puerto Blest, Argentina, in 2009. Or whatever the current genus name for this subgroup of southern beeches is after Nothofagus has been split up. In this case the reason for taxonomic changes was not phylogenetic systematics, because Nothofagus in its wider circumscription was also monophyletic. If I understand correctly, the idea was to make the age of the genera more comparable to Quercus, Fagus and suchlike. Either way, I like how this picture came out.
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