Botanical description
— Genus, Podocarpus, L' Hér.
Flowers. — Dioecious or rarely monoecious,
Male amenta. — Cylindrical.
Stamens. — Numerous, slightly contracted at the base, the scale-like apices closely imbricate; anther cells two.
Female amenta. — Of two to four bracts or scales, more or less succulent, and united with the rhachis in an oblong receptacle, unequally two or four toothed at the apex.
Ovules. — One or two, exserted, reversed, and adnate to an erect stipe from within the larger teeth or bracts of the receptacle.
Seeds. — Drupaceous, the nucleus enclosed in a double integument, the outer one succulent, the inner one long.
Embryo. — With two short cotyledons and an inferior radicle.
Trees or shrubs.
Leaves. — Alternate or rarely opposite, usually distichous and flat, with a prominent midrib.
Buds — Scaly.
Amenta. — Axillary or terminal, solitary or several together, sessile or shortly racemose.