Foliage on an ornamental specimen [C.J. Earle, May-1999].

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Podocarpus ladei F.M. Bailey 1905 (Hill 1998); see also de Laubenfels (1978). The type specimen was collected by F.W.H. Lade from Mt. Spurgeon, Mitchell River, Queensland, in Dec-1902.

Description

Trees to 25 m tall. Bark smooth, red-brown, shed in thin scales. Leaves sessile, spirally arranged but secondarily distichous, oblong, 12-16×2.5-4 mm, obtuse, with stomata on both surfaces. Female cone a single scale subtending a seed, not expanding at maturity. Seeds ellipsoidal, to 25 mm long and 15 mm in diameter, purple-black when mature, pruinose (Hill 1998).

Range

Australia: Queensland: Atherton Tableland. Known only from rainforests of Mt. Spurgeon and Mt. Lewis, where it grows in granite-derived soils at 1000-1200 m elevation (Hill 1998).

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Remarks

See Also

Bailey, F.M. 1905. Podocarpus ladei. Queensland Agric. J. 15:899.

This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.conifers.org/po/pr/ladei.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
Last modified on 8-Sep-2002