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Podocarpus neriifolius

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Trees 3 to 45m tall and 10-100 cm girth with a clear round bole up to 20 m; crown often dome-shaped. Branches verticillate. Bark yellow-brown. Foliage buds 2-5 mm long, occasionally longer, the primary scales often spreading.

Lleaves 15-24 by up to 2.4 cm, acuminate and acute, narrowing abruptly at the base to a short petiole, becoming linear-lanceolate and c. 1.6 cm wide on older fast-growing saplings in open forest situations. Leaves of mature trees similar with a short petiole up to 6 mm. Shade leaves acuminate, 8-12 by 1.2-1.8 cm. More exposed leaves linear-lanceolate, 12-18 by 1.1-1.5cm or on particularly large trees more nearly linear and 7-10 by 1-1.1 cm. Midrib abruptly raised on the upper side of the leaf at least 0.3 mm high and usually 0.6-0.8 mm wide but as little as 0.4 mm wide on less vigorous leaves or in the Borneo region on most leaves."