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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Podocarpus L'Her. ex Pers.

PODOCARPUS L'Heritier, 1807

Plants dioec., rarely monoec.; seeds axillary or terminal. Male strobili solitary or several together, or in spikes, sessile or pedunculate, with sterile scales at base; sporophylls us. ∞, bisporangiate, imbricate along axis, apiculus short. Female branchlets us. solitary, pedunculate, with basal scales; receptacle us. swollen and fleshy. Carpidia 1-2, 1-ovulate; ovule not exceeding epimatium, which is connate with the inverted ovule, concrescent with the integument. Seed nutlike or drupelike, cots 2. Shrubs or trees, widespread. The N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Seed drupelike, receptacle not swollen
2
Seed nutlike, receptacle us. swollen
3
2
Seeds solitary, > 1 cm. long
3. ferrugineus
Seeds several to spike, < 1 cm. long
2. spicatus
3
Lvs of adults scalelike
1. dacrydioides
Lvs of adults not scalelike
4
4
Lvs obtusely apiculate; sprawling shrub
4. nivalis
Lvs acute, pungent; tree or erect shrub
5
5
Lvs narrow-linear, subcoriac.; bushy shrub or small tree, with slender trunk and branchlets
7.acutifolius
Lvs linear-lanceolate, coriac.; tree with stout trunk and less slender branchlets
6
6
Bark thick, tough, furrowed
5. totara
Bark thin, papery
6. hallii

HYBRIDISM: There is good evidence for the groups P. hallii × nivalis and P. hallii × totara ( × P. loderi Ckn. in Con. in Cult. 1932, 161). Much more doubtful are acutifolius × hallii, acutifolius × nivalis, ferrugineus × totara, spicatus × totara.

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