[FZ]
Podocarpaceae, John Lewis. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees or shrubs, usually dioecious (always in our area)
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves linear, lanceolate, narrowly ovate or more rarely scale-like, spirally arranged and sometimes disposed in one plane or apparently opposite
- sex Male
- Staminate strobili terminal or axillary, forming single or fascicled usually bracteate catkin-like cones; fertile scales subpeltate, bearing 2 pollen-sacs towards the base of the blade, pollen grains winged
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Cones
- Female strobilus small with usually only 1 or 2 fertile scales Staminate strobili terminal or axillary, forming single or fascicled usually bracteate catkin-like cones; fertile scales subpeltate, bearing 2 pollen-sacs towards the base of the blade, pollen grains winged
- sex Female
- Female strobilus small with usually only 1 or 2 fertile scales
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
- Ovule solitary, erect or inverted, soon becoming enclosed by a secondary integument variously developed from part of the strobilus
[FWTA]
Podocarpaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954
- Morphology General Habit
- Plants dioecious or monoecious; male flowers in terminal or axillary strobili, the stamens usually many, the anthers 2-celled; female flower solitary or paired, axillary or terminal, or in strobili with megasporophylls 1-ovuled and bracteate; seed solitary, or paired; cotyledons 2 Trees, or shrubby in some species; leaves persistent, alternate or opposite, or absent and represented by phylloclades, very variable from acicular to broadly lanceolate
[FTEA]
Gymnospermae, R. Melville. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees and shrubs with linear to lanceolate or scale-leaves, usually dioecious, the males with small cones or spikes, the females with the cones small or reduced to 1 or 2 fertile scales
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
- Ovules erect or inverted, with the sterile base of the seed scale complex (epimatium) usually ± folded over the ovule and the base of the bracts and cone axis sometimes swelling to form a fleshy receptacle
- Acmopyle Pilg.
- Afrocarpus (Buchholz & N.E.Gray) C.N.Page
- Dacrycarpus (Endl.) de Laub.
- Dacrydium Sol. ex G.Forst.
- Falcatifolium de Laub.
- Halocarpus C.J.Quinn
- Lagarostrobos Quinn
- Lepidothamnus Phil.
- Manoao Molloy
- Microcachrys Hook.f.
- Nageia Gaertn.
- Parasitaxus de Laub.
- Pectinopitys C.N.Page
- Pherosphaera W.Archer bis
- Phyllocladus Rich. ex Mirb.
- Podocarpus L'Hér. ex Pers.
- Prumnopitys Phil.
- Retrophyllum C.N.Page
- Saxegothaea Lindl.
- Sundacarpus (J.Buchholz & N.E.Gray) C.N.Page
Podocarpaceae Endl. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Syn. Conif. 203. 1847 [May-Jun 1847] (1847)
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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