Podocarpus neriifolius
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Araucariales |
| Family: | Podocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Podocarpus |
| Species: | P. neriifolius
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| Binomial name | |
| Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don (1824)
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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).[2][3]: 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.[4]
Botany
[edit]It grows 10–15m tall, though very occasionally taller, in tropical and subtropical wet closed forests, between 650m and 1600m elevation.[5] In Cambodia however it grows in a dwarf form some 2–4m tall, at Bokor, some 1000m elevation. It can grow in a variety of places like rocky hill-tops, swampy forest, kerangas, on limestone and sandstone soils.[3]: 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).[5]
References
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- ^ Farjon, A. (2013). "Podocarpus neriifolius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T42521A2984612. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42521A2984612.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ a b Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ a b de Laubenfels, David J. (1984). "Podocarpaceae". Flora Malesiana. 10 (1): 351–419 – via Naturalis Institutional Repository.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Dy Phon Pauline, 2000, Plants Used In Cambodia, printed by Imprimiere Olympic, Phnom Penh
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