Podocarpus neriifolius

{{Short description|Species of conifer}}

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| image = Podocarpus neriifolius UJ.jpg

| status = LC| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Farjon, A. |date=2013 |title=Podocarpus neriifolius |volume=2013 |page=e.T42521A2984612 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42521A2984612.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| genus = Podocarpus

| species = neriifolius

| authority = D.Don (1824)

| synonyms =

  • Margbensonia neriifolia {{small|(D.Don) A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan (1998)}}
  • Nageia neriifolia {{small|(D.Don) Kuntze (1891)}}
  • Nageia endlicheriana {{small|(Carrière) Kuntze (1891)}}
  • Podocarpus annamiensis var. hainanensis {{small|Gaussen (1976), without type.}}
  • Podocarpus endlicherianus {{small|Carrière (1855)}}
  • Podocarpus macrophyllus var. acuminatissimus {{small|E.Pritz. (1900)}}

| synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:263545-1 Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 March 2024.

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Podocarpus neriifolius is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It ranges from Nepal, eastern India, and Bangladesh through parts of Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines).{{cite journal |last1=de Laubenfels |first1=David J. |date=1984 |title=Podocarpaceae |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/532614 |journal=Flora Malesiana |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=351–419 |via=Naturalis Institutional Repository}}{{rp|400–401}}

Previously the species was thought to range eastwards as far as Fiji. David J. de Laubenfels identified the eastern populations from New Guinea to Fiji as a separate species, Podocarpus idenburgensis, distinguished by narrow, acute leaves.David J. de Laubenfels "New Sections and Species of Podocarpus Based on the Taxonomic Status of P. neriifolius (Podocarpaceae) in Tropical Asia," Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 24(2), 133-152, (22 September 2015). https://doi.org/10.3417/2012091

Botany

It grows {{convert|10–15|m|abbr=off}} tall, though very occasionally taller, in tropical and subtropical wet closed forests, between {{convert|650|m|abbr=on}} and {{convert|1600|m|abbr=on}}elevation.Dy Phon Pauline, 2000, Plants Used In Cambodia, printed by Imprimiere Olympic, Phnom Penh In Cambodia however it grows in a dwarf form some {{convert|2–4|m|abbr=on}} tall, at Bokor, some {{convert|1000|m|abbr=on}} elevation. It can grow in a variety of places like rocky hill-tops, swampy forest, kerangas, on limestone and sandstone soils.{{rp|401}}

It has a yellowish wood, used in construction in Cambodia (called srô:l in Khmer), where it is graded 2nd category (not as good as 1st, but above others).

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