Compilation
Podocarpus falcatus

a tall tree, usually branched from the ground unless when standing in close associations; bark as in P. latifolius [Henkel], or in old trees coming off in sheets (C. Ross); the young branchlets of the mature tree more or less angular, glaucous; terminal buds globose-ovoid, scales very broad, shortly pointed with brown margins or the tips foliaceous; leaves spirally arranged, loose in the juvenile state, moderately crowded in the mature state, drooping, linear to lanceolate-linear, long tapering to a slender acute point, gradually narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 3–6 in. by 3–4 lin., straight or frequently slightly falcate, suberect or spreading, thinly coriaceous, more or less glaucous, midrib slightly raised on both sides with 3 resin-ducts below the central strand, stomata confined to the lower side; male strobiles solitary or in clusters of up to 5, cylindric, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, glaucous-pinkish, with rotundate-ovate coriaceous bracts, 1 to almost 2 lin. long at the base; scales imbricate, at length loose, with a broad ovate fimbriate-denticulate small blade up to 1/2 lin. long; pollen sacs 3/4 lin. long, conspicuous; female strobiles borne on a very short peduncle and formed of a single pair of squamiform bracts fused into a slightly clavate receptacle, one of the bracts barren, with a slightly lower insertion, both very broadly ovate with a short slender tip, the upper, with a narrow membranous denticulate margin, embracing the base of the ovule, the mature receptacle stout, clavate, hardly fleshy, greenish-glaucous with the fertile bract patelliform, the whole up to over 2 lin. by 1 1/2 lin., mature seeds obovoid to ellipsoid, narrowed downwards, 9–10 lin. by 7–9 lin., olive green, inner layer of seed-shell very delicate, hardly separable, brown, the remainder of the shell hard-leathery, and very gritty, more or less resinous, up to 1 lin. thick. null