 | Falcatifolium taxoides Common NamesTaxonomic notesSyn: Dacrydium taxoides Brongniart and Grisebach, Podocarpus taxoides (1).Description"A shrub of conical habit or a tree up to [15 m] high. Young shoots purple in colour. LEAVES alternate, but appearing more or less in two opposite rows, oblong-lanceolate, slightly curved, acute or sub-acute at the apex. MALE STROBILI in axillary or terminal spikes. SEED ovoid, laterally compressed" (2).RangeNew Caledonia (1).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarksCitations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967. See also: Compton. 1922. J. Linn. Soc. 427. |
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