Bark and aerial root development. Lane Cove National Park, just north of Sydney, Australia [Trevor Hinchliffe, ].

Prostrate plant. Lane Cove National Park [Trevor Hinchliffe, ].

Foliage and female strobili. Lane Cove National Park [Trevor Hinchliffe, ].

Branchlet, foliage. Lane Cove National Park [Trevor Hinchliffe, ].

Wild plant regenerating after fire. Lane Cove National Park [Trevor Hinchliffe, ].

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Base Name: Taxus spinulosa Smith (Gray 1958, de Laubenfels 1985). Syn: Podocarpus pungens D.Don, Podocarpus bidwillii Endl. (Silba 1986), Podocarpus ensifolia R. Br. ex Carrière (de Laubenfels 1985).

Description

"Shrub or small tree. Leaves narrow-linear, mostly 2-6, rarely to 8 cm long, 3 mm wide, pungent-pointed. Male cones cylindrical, 5 mm long, in clusters. Female cones usually solitary in the leaf axils; scales few, fleshy, combining with the stalk to form a receptacle. Fruiting receptacle blue-black, glaucous, fleshy, bearing 1 or rarely 2 almost globose seeds, 8-12 mm diam." (Harden 1990).

Range

Australia: NSW & Qld. Mostly found "in sheltered coastal sites and gullies on the adjacent ranges; chiefly on the coast south from Woy Woy and valleys of the Blue Mtns." (Harden 1990).

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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.conifers.org/po/po/spinulosus.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
Last modified on 2006.06.12