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Podocarpus spinulosus (Sm.) R.Br. ex Mirb.
Family Podocarpaceae
Common name: spiny-leaf podocarp

Podocarpus spinulosus (Sm.) R.Br. ex Mirb. APNI*

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.


Distribution and occurrence: in sheltered coastal sites and gullies on the adjacent ranges; chiefly on the coast south from Woy Woy and valleys of the Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden & J. Thompson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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