Range of Podocarpus archboldii (2). New Guinea basemap from Expedia Maps.
"Podocarpus archboldii Gray. A. fruiting branch, B. branch with male catkins, C. sterile sporophyll of male catkin, D. fertile sporophyll of male catkin, E. bud scale. (A., C. after Brass & Versteegh 11946 A, B., D. after Brass & Versteegh 11946)" (1).
Common Names
"baula [Chimbu], jamekang [Tomba], juba [Nagen], kaibigltuga [Minj], morumba (Mendi), puling [Togoha], yamekange [Tomba]" (1).Taxonomic notes
The former var. crassiramosus Gray has been segregated as P. pseudobracteatus de Laubenfels (2).Description
"Trees up to 40 m, d.b.h. up to 100 cm. Bark grey, brown or pale brown, fairly smooth or slightly to strongly fissured, often longitudinally shedding. Inner bark brownish salmon. Sapwood straw. Wood brown, cream or pale brown. Branchlets stout, angular, terminal cone large, globose or ovoid, 4-6 by 3-5 mm, outer scales widely triangular, obtuse or long-acute or acuminate, upper ones apiculate, margin finely scarious, recurved. Leaves erect to patent, coriaceous, glabrous, brown or yellowish when young, dark green and glossy above, light green and dull below, crowded, narrowly lanceolate, 3-9.5(-13) by 0.5-1.1 cm, acute or acuminate, base narrowly cuneate, hardly marked against petiole, midrib narrowly prominent and sunken above, wider and rounded below, margin revolute. Petiole 0-2 mm long. Male flowers yellow, axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly stalked, peduncle short, angular, 8-10 by 2 mm, with 10-15 broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate scales, the latter 2.5-4.5 by 2.5-5 mm, crested, lower ones acuminate, apical ones apiculate or rounded, cone cylindric, 25-30 by 2-3.5 mm, microsporophylls oblong, 1.5-2 by 0.7 mm, rounded or obtuse, slightly scarious along margin, tip recurved, anther-cells ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long. Female cone solitary, axillary, globose, peduncles stout, 3-14 mm long, glabrous, ovule purplish green or green, shiny black or orange, 7-9 mm long, subtended by 2 deciduous, 2-3 mm long, acute bracts. Gruits green or glaucous, subglobose, 10-15 by 9-13 mm, pointed" (1).Range
New Guinea. Regionally, is "[m]ainly found in the upper lowland regions to the upper montane areas, and occasionally found in the subalpine shrubberies, 800-3100 m. Flowers Jan. - Oct" (1). Its local distribution includes (1):"WNG. Idenburo River area, Lake Habbema area.
"TNG. Lagaip River area, Wahag Valley, Kubor Range, Nondugl area, Keglsugl - Mt Wilhelm area, Mt Kerigomna, Marafunga, Omahaiga Valley, Mt Otto, Mt Sarawaket, Cromwell Mts, Bulolo-Wau-Edie Creek tract, Kaindi.
"PAPUA. Kaugel Valley, Mt Giluwe, Jalibu, Lake Kutubu, Wharton Range."
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(1) Van Royen 1979.(2) Laubenfels 1988.
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 19-Dec-98