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Podocarpus gracillimus

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Name

Identification
Podocarpus gracillimus Stapf [family PODOCARPACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Afrocarpus falcatus (Thunb.) N.C.Page [family PODOCARPACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Podocarpus gracillimus
  • Afrocarpus falcatus

Flora

Entry for PODOCARPUS gracillimus Stapf [family PODOCARPACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2 (Supplement), page 3, (1933) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
PODOCARPUS gracillimus Stapf [family PODOCARPACEAE], in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. ii. 343;—Burtt Davy, Man. Flow. Pl. Transvaal, i. 100, 101.
Information
a tree of great height (a “mammoth tree,” according to Nelson), only known from a few branchlets in the adult state and some immature cones; branchlets slender; leaves densely crowded, sessile or subsessile, linear, about equally attenuated at both ends, or the tips more so and very acute, straight or very slightly curved, up to 10 lin. by 1/2– 3/4 lin., coriaceous, midrib obscure on both sides, particularly on the upper. Male and female strobiles unknown; seeds (immature) globose, about 5 lin. in diam., supported by the moderately stout axis of the strobile, which is about 1 1/2 lin. long and bears the scars of 1 or 2 barren scales, and by the fertile scale which is ovate-triangular, 1/2 lin. long and closely appressed to the seed. null
Distribution
TRANSVAAL Houtboschberg, Nelson, 423! Burtt Davy, 5083.
Notes
A very doubtful and incompletely known species. It may represent merely a state of P. gracilior, in which the reduction of the leaves in length and breadth characteristic of the fruiting stage has been carried to excess. Sim has already suggested this explanation. A similar state was collected by A. Whyte in the Eldama ravine, Kenya, along with typical P. gracilior.

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