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Identification
Podocarpus macrophyllus [family PODOCARPACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Podocarpus macrophyllus [family PODOCARPACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Podocarpus macrophyllus
  • Podocarpus forrestii

Flora

Entry for PODOCARPUS latifolius R. Br. ex Mirb. [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 latifolius R. Br. ex Mirb. [family PODOCARPACEAE], Geogr. Conif. in Mém. Mus. xiii. 75; not of Wall.;—Bennett, Pl. Javan. Rar. 40; C. Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 110; Pilger, in Engl. Pflanzenr. Taxac. 90, 91 incl. vars. latior and confertus; Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. i. 421, 422, figs. 361, 362; ii. 86, fig. 82; Marloth, Fl. S. Afr. i. 101, 102, t. 13, 17 A, and (Suppl.) Dict. Comm. Names of Pl. 101; Sim, Fl. Trees & Shrubs for use in South Afr. 182, and Native Timb. South Afr. 101, fig. 41; Pilger in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. ed. 2, 247, fig. 136; Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1908, 147, Man. Flow. Pl. Transvaal, 100; Levyns, Guide Fl. Cape Penins. 19.
PODOCARPUS Thunbergii Hook. [family PODOCARPACEAE], in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 657, t. 22; Endl. Syn. Conif. 217; Lindl. & Gord. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 224; Pappe, Silva Cap. 32; Carr. Trait. Conif. ed. i. 470; ed. ii. 670; Gord., Pinet. ed. i. 284; ed. ii. 349; Henk. & Hochst. Syn. Nadelhölz., 398; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 511; Fourcade, Rep. Natal Forests, 1889, 4, 121; Bolus & Wolley-Dod, Fl. Pl. Cape Penins. in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 320; Wood, Handb. Fl. Natal, 122 and in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xviii. 224; Agr. Journ. Cape Good Hope, xxvi. 170, fig. opp. p. 171; Marloth, Kapland, 190, 191, 196, 200, 208, figs. 65, 68, 69, 73; Sim, Tree Plant. Natal, 236, 285, 331; Bews in Ann. Natal Mus. iii. 545, 547, 548.
PODOCARPUS Thunbergii Sim var. latifolia [family PODOCARPACEAE], Forest Fl. Cape Good Hope, 3, 332, t. 148, 149, f. 2.
PODOCARPUS macrophyllus Drège [family PODOCARPACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Doc. 123, 157, 212, not of Don.
PODOCARPUS Sweetii C. Presl [family PODOCARPACEAE], Bot. Bemerk. 110.
Taxus latifolia Thunb. [family TAXACEAE], Prodr. 117; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 547.
Taxus macrophylla Banks ex Endl. [family TAXACEAE], Syn. Conif. 218.
Nageia latifolia O. Kuntze [family PODOCARPACEAE], Rev. Gen. ii. 800; not of Gord.
Information
a tree up to 100 ft. high, with a tall clean bole on the average 2 ft. (sometimes up to 4 ft.) in diameter, and a comparatively small crown; bark smooth, persistent; branchlets of the mature tree rather stunted, terete, slightly angular when young, the decurrent leaf-bases soon becoming obliterated; terminal buds ovoid, up to 2 lin. long; leaves spirally arranged, loose in the juvenile state, crowded, particularly upwards, and then often subverticillate in the mature state, broad-linear to linear-oblong or oblong, acute to subacute, sometimes apiculate, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 1–2 1/2 in. by 3 1/2–6 1/2 lin., or in the juvenile state up to 5 in. long, straight or (the juvenile) very slightly falcate, spreading, coriaceous, midrib slightly raised on both sides with 3 resin-ducts below the central strand; stomata confined to the lower side; male strobiles solitary, cylindric, 3/4–1 in. long, glaucous-pinkish, with a few rotundate-ovate coriaceous very concave bracts about 1 lin. long at the base; scales imbricate, at length loose, with a rotundate or broad-ovate fimbriate-denticulate or subdenticulate small blade up to 1/2 lin. long; pollen sacs 2/3 lin. long, conspicuous; female strobiles borne on slender peduncles 2 1/2–5 lin. long, formed of 2 decussate pairs of scales fused into a fleshy receptacle, those of one pair barren, slightly shorter, with or without small cuspidate tips, both of the other pair or one only fertile, with a short ovate free blade embracing the base of the ovule, the whole receptacle 2-lobed, and if only one scale fertile more or less to very oblique; the receptacle when mature resembling a small dark red cherry in colour and shape, up to 1/2 in. in diam.; seeds subglobose, 3–3 1/2 lin. in diam., dark glaucous to bluish-green or blue; inner layer of seed-shell thin crustaceous or almost papery, outer somewhat fleshy, very resinous, 1 1/4 lin. thick. null
Distribution
CAPE PROVINCE Cape Div.; Newlands Woods on Table Mountain, Wolley Dod, 2729! Fritz Bronn's Kraal, Alexander-Prior! Orange Kloof, Gamble, 22002! Hout Bay, Bews! Herb. Sim 19017! Swellendam Div.; Groot-vadersbosh, Thunberg; near George, Burchell, 5843! forests from west of George to the eastern boundary of the division (Cape Forest Reports); Kaymans River Gat, in forest, Drège! Knysna Div.; all forest sections of the division (Cape Forest Reports); Outeniqua Mountains, Thunberg; Kaatjes Kraal, Burchell, 5223! 5254! Harberville Forest, Keit, 524! Humansdorp Div,; forests east as far as Storms River (Cape Forest Reports for 1910); Uitenhage Div.; Zuurbergen (Cape Forest Reports); Albany Div.; the wooded kloofs near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3595! MacOwan, 1408! 1958! (Herb. Sim); Zeyher, 3882! 3883! 3884! (Herb. Sim); Atherstone, 89! Burtt Davy, 7816! King Williamstown Div.; forests of the Perie and North Sections; Amatola Range (Cape Forest Reports); Perie forest, Sim, 19020! Stutterheim Div.; Koeoghe Range and Isidenge forests (Cape Forest Reports); “British Kaffraria,” Cooper, 1298. Fort Cunyngham, 2000–3500 ft., Herb. Sim, 2030! 2122!EASTERN REGION Throughout the forests from the Great Kei River and lower White Kei River east to the Drakensberg above Newcastle in Natal and western Zululand (Cape, Natal & Zululand Forests Reports); Tembuland, Engkobe, Maning, Merwe, For. Dept. Herb., 2266! Mkonkoto forest, 3000 ft., Sim! Maclear Div.; Pot Romer Mountains, 5500 ft., Galpin, 6831! Pondoland; Egosa forest, 650–780 ft., Beyrich; and without precise locality, Bachmann, 70! Mt. Ayliff Div. Tabun River, Nat. Herb. Pretoria! Umzimkulu, Mhlonga forest, Kaufmann, For. Dept. Herb., 2168! 2169! Jutsubani forest, Fraser, For. Dept. Herb., 2227!NATAL Alfred County, near Murchison, Wood, 3028! near Durban, Plant! Polela Distr., Ingwangwani, Emblazani Forest, Household, For. Dept. Herb., 1957! Drakensberg, 3500–4500 ft., Fourcade; north of Van Reenens Pass, 5000–5500 ft. (according to Bews); Rehmann, 7246! 7247! on the slopes facing Newcastle, 5000–6000 ft. (according to Bews). Zululand; Odeni, 4500–5000 ft. and Ingoye forests, 1000–1500 ft.; and without precise locality, Gerrard, 127! Sanderson!ORANGE FREE STATE Northern slopes of the Drakensberg, Cooper.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bowie! Brand! Villet! Millan! Mund and Maire!SWAZILAND Forbes Reef bush, 5100, ft. Burtt Davy, 2748!TRANSVAAL Middleburg Div.; Kaapsche Hoop, Rogers, 21089! Lydenburg Div.; forests on the eastern slope of the Drakensberg, east of Pilgrim's Rest, Legat 2455! Waterberg Div.; Nylstrom, Col. Herb., 9549! Pietersburg Div.; The Downs, Rogers, 21910! Zoutpansberg Div.; Houtboschberg, 4750 ft., Burtt Davy, 1194! 2313! Houseman, Col. Herb. 5249! Botha!
Notes
This tree, commonly known as yellow-wood or Upright Yellow-wood, or Regte Geelhout, is one of the most valuable timber trees of South Africa (see Sim, l.c.). Sim distinguishes 3 varieties, namely—(a) latifolia, (b) angustifolia, and (c) falcata. Vars. latifolia and falcata are said to have green receptacles 2–3 lin. wide, and seeds 4 lin. in diam., with bony shells, whilst they differ from each other in having leaves 1–2 in. by 2–3 lin., and 2–5 in. by 1 1/2–2 lin. respectively. Var. angustifolia on the other hand is credited with red receptacles 3–4 lin. wide and seed 5 lin. in diam., with crustaceous shells and leaves 1–2 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin. From the fact that the author adds that var. latifolia is the common form throughout Cape Colony, the Transkei and Lower Pondoland, and is easily recognizable by the short wide leaves standing erect all round the rigid twigs—as seen in his plate, t. 148—it is clear that he means the common form of the tree described here; this, however, has a thin crustaceous seed-shell (testa) and receptacles which become red when ripe (see Marloth's figure in his “Flora of South Africa,” t. 17 A). Var. falcata is said to be the common form of Upper Pondoland, Griqualand East and Natal. Of this two barren branches are figured in t. 149. The one numbered 2 is described as a robust sapling, and represents certainly the juvenile state of P. latifolia as understood here, whilst number 1 is doubtful. Var. angustifolia which the author knows only from Robertson Division, is either P. elongatus or an undescribed species (see next species). Pilger l.c. admits two varieties, namely, var. latior with leaves 2–2 1/2 by 7 1/2–8 1/2 lin., from the Vogelgat Mountains in Caledon Div., Schlechter, 9542! and var. confertus, with leaves 1–1 1/2 by 4–5 1/2 lin. with broad rounded apiculate tips, from Table Mountain, Bergius; Schlechter, 3947. Var. latior is very striking on account of the unusually broad leaves, which are also somewhat thinner in texture. The specimen seen by me is a ♀ with malformed cones infested with Corynelia uberata, Fries, a fungus very frequently found on the South African Podocarpus. Var. confertus, on the other hand, comes evidently within the range of ordinary fluctuation characteristic of this species.

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