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- ≡ Podocarpus dacrydioides A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 358 (1832)
Tree up to 50 m. or more, trunk up to 1·5 m. diam., often fluted and buttressed at base, bark grey. Branchlets slender, drooping. Lvs of juveniles subdistichous, subpatent, narrow-linear, subfalcate, acuminate, decurrent, 3–7 × 0·5–1 mm.; of semi-adults (often with cones and seeds) seldom > 4 mm. long; of adults 1–2 mm. long, imbricating, more appressed, keeled, subtrigonous, lanceolate-subulate to acuminate, with broader base. Male strobili terminal, up to 1 cm. long, sporophylls bisporangiate, apiculus acute. Seeds solitary, terminal on short branchlets, upper 2–3 lvs distinct from lower, forming a receptacle, red, swollen and succulent in fr. Seeds 4–5 mm. long, broadly ovoid, hardly apiculate, black, nutlike.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Podocarpus dacrydioides A.Rich.]