The Steineiben (Podocarpus) is a kind of approximately 105 kinds of needle wood in the family of the (Podocarpaceae). The botanische name meant translates: gestielte fruit, but does not consider fruits with Nacktsamern gives it, thus gestielter Same with Arillus.

Description

Most kinds are getrenntgeschlechtig The sheets are not needle-shaped but lanzettlich, them are crude and leather-like. The seeds are surrounded by a seed coat (Arillus) (as with the Eiben, therefore the German name).

Spreading

The Steineiben is represented with many kinds in the mountains of the Tropics; the circulation area of the kind hands south to Chile and New Zealand, northward until Japan and Mexico. All kinds are not winter hard in Central Europe. On the British islands several kinds are cultivated and are also in gardens and parks to be seen there. Individual kinds are suitable as house plants and are even relatively durable, them are rather expensive and for the purchase are still rarely offered.

Systematics

In the kind of the Steineiben there are 105 kinds. It is arranged into two Untergattung and several sections:

• Untergattung Podocarpus
  • Section Podocarpus (eastern and southern Africa)
    • Podocarpus elongatus
    • Steineibe (Podocarpus latifolius)
  • Section Scytopodium (Madagascar, eastern Africa)
    • Podocarpus capuronii
    • Podocarpus henkelii
    • Podocarpus humbertii
    • Podocarpus madagascariensis
    • Podocarpus rostratus
  • Section Australis (southeast Australia, New Zealand, Neukaledonien, southern Chile)
    • Podocarpus alpinus
    • Podocarpus cunninghamii
    • Podocarpus of gnidioides
    • Podocarpus lawrencei
    • Podocarpus nivalis
    • Podocarpus nubigenus
    • Podocarpus totara
  • Section Crassiformis (northeast Queensland)
    • Podocarpus smithii
  • Section Capitulatis (central Chile, southern Brazil, in the Anden from northern Argentina to Ekuador)
    • Podocarpus glomeratus
    • Podocarpus lambertii
    • Podocarpus parlatorei
    • Podocarpus salignus
    • Podocarpus sellowii
    • Podocarpus sprucei
    • Podocarpus transiens
  • Section Pratensis (southeast Mexico to Guyana and Peru)
    • Podocarpus oleifolius
    • Podocarpus pendulifolius
    • Podocarpus tepuiensis
  • Section Lanceolatis (southern Mexico, small Antilleses, Venezuela in the high country of Bolivia)
    • Podocarpus coriaceus
    • Podocarpus matudai
    • Podocarpus rusbyi
    • Podocarpus salicifolius
    • Podocarpus steyermarkii
  • Section Pumilis (southern Caribbean islands and Guyana high country)
    • Steineibe (Podocarpus angustifolius)
    • Podocarpus aristulatus
    • Podocarpus buchholzii
    • Podocarpus roraimae
    • Podocarpus urbanii
  • Section Nemoralis (central and northern South America, direction the south to Bolivia)
    • Podocarpus brasiliensis
    • Podocarpus celatus
    • Podocarpus guatemalensis
    • Podocarpus magnifolius
    • Podocarpus purdieanus
    • Podocarpus trinitensis

• Untergattung Foliolatus
  • Section Foliolatus (Nepal to Sumatra, the Philippines, and new Guinea to Tonga)
    • Podocarpus archboldii
    • Podocarpus borneensis
    • Podocarpus deflexus
    • Podocarpus insularis
    • Podocarpus levis
    • Steineibe (Podocarpus neriifolius)
    • Podocarpus novae caledoniae
    • Podocarpus pallidus
    • Podocarpus rubens
    • Podocarpus of spathoides
  • Section Acuminatus (northern Queensland, new Guinea, new Britain, Borneo)
    • Podocarpus dispermus
    • Podocarpus ledermannii
    • Podocarpus micropedunculatis
  • Section Globulus (Taiwan to Viet Nam, Sumatra and Borneo, and Neukaledonien)
    • Podocarpus annamiensis
    • Podocarpus globulus
    • Podocarpus lucienii
    • Podocarpus nakai
    • Podocarpus sylvestris
    • Podocarpus teysmannii
  • Section Longifoliolatus (Sumatra and Borneo, to Fiji)
    • Podocarpus atjehensis
    • Podocarpus bracteatus
    • Podocarpus confertus
    • Podocarpus decumbens
    • Podocarpus degeneri
    • Podocarpus gibbsii
    • Podocarpus longifoliolatus
    • Podocarpus polyspermus
    • Podocarpus pseudobracteatus
    • Podocarpus salomoniensis
  • Section Gracilis (southern China, from Malaysia to Fiji)
    • Podocarpus affinis
    • Podocarpus glaucus
    • Podocarpus lophatus
    • Podocarpus pilgeri
    • Podocarpus rotundus
  • Section Macrostachyus (Southeast Asia to new Guinea)
    • Podocarpus brassii
    • Podocarpus brevifolius
    • Podocarpus costalis
    • Podocarpus crassigemmis
    • Podocarpus tixieri
  • Section Rumphius (Hainan, southward to Malaysia to northern Queensland)
    • Podocarpus grayii
    • Podocarpus laubenfelsii
    • Podocarpus rumphii
  • Section Polystachyus (southern China and Japan, from Malaysia to new Guinea and northeast Australia)
    • Podocarpus chinensis
    • Podocarpus chingianus
    • Podocarpus elatus
    • Podocarpus fasciculus
    • Podocarpus macrocarpus
    • Steineibe (Podocarpus macrophyllus)
    • Podocarpus polystachyus
    • Podocarpus ridleyi
    • Podocarpus subtropicalis
  • Section Spinulosus (southeast and southwest coasts of Australia)
    • Podocarpus drouynianus
    • Podocarpus spinulosus

Today no more in the kind Podocarpus are for example the following kinds:

• Plum Steineibe (Prumnopitys andina) (Syn.: Podocarpus andinus, Prumnopitys elegans)
• Dacrycarpus of dacrydioides (Syn.: Podocarpus of dacrydioides, Dacrydium excelsum, Podocarpus of thujoides, Nageia of dacrydioides, Nageia excelsa, Podocarpus excelsus)
• Prumnopitys ferruginea (Syn.: Podocarpus ferrugineus, Stachycarpus ferrugineus, Nageia ferruginea)
• Nageia nagi (Syn.: Podocarpus nagi, Decussocarpus nagi, Podocarpus formosana, P. koshunensis)
• Afrocarpus gracilior (Syn.: Podocarpus gracilior, Decussocarpus gracilior)

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