Foliage on a tree at the Univ. of Florida, Gainesville (Dan Skean 1985) (3).
Common Names
Broad-leaved podocarpus (3);
(5).Taxonomic notes
Syn: Podocarpus nagi (Thunb.) Zoll. & Moritz. (5); Decussocarpus nagi de Laubenfels. Li (4) describes a Podocarpus formosana, synonyms for which include P. nagi var. angustifolia Sasaki 1928; P. nagi var. koshunensis Kanehira 1931; and P. koshunensis Kanehira 1936; that taxon is treated here pending more explicit information on the relative status of these synonyms. Silba (source uncertain) has described one variety, N. nagi var. formosensis (Dummer) Silba [syn: Podocarpus formosensis Dummer].Description
"Evergreen trees. Leaves opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 6 cm. long; 2 cm. wide, midribs indistinct, many-nerved, bright green and shining on both surface, subsessile. Staminate flowers catkin-like, cone-shaped, axillary, 3-5 clustered. Seeds globose, about 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, bluish green and bloomy, without fleshy receptacles."Trunk bark blackish brown, irregularly flaky and 1eaving spline-shaped or somewhat rectangular flake-scars on trunks, flakes about 1.5 mm. thick, more or less woody; lenticels grayish brown, about 0.8 mm across, longitudinally sparsely arranged; outer bark about 0.3 mm. thick, membranous, cross-section of outer bark brown; phelloderm very conspicuous; inner bark about 7 mm. thick, pale yellowish white, fibrous, with flimsy white streaks of parenchymatous tissues; cambium and newly formed phloem colorless, more or less transparent. Freshly cut sapwood pale apricot yellow; wood rays thready, not very much distinct" (5).
Range
S. China & Japan. Introduced and planted in Taiwan (5).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) Botanical Inventory Of Taiwan.
(3) Albion University website.
(4) Li 1975.
(5) Liu 1970 (as Podocarpus nagi).
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Last modified on 21-Dec-98