Podocarpales: Podocarpaceae S.S.
from Part III - Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2024
Moderate to large in size, tall and usually long-lived evergreen trees, with multiple slender, widely spaced branch and branchlet systems bearing typically willow-like (salignoid) leaves, which are dorsiventrally flattened to form distinctive upper and lower surfaces, each with a raised midrib along the dorsal side. The whole forms, when mature, usually broad open crowns borne from smoothly thin-barked trunks.