Sundacarpus amarus is the only tree species in the monotypical kind Sundacarpus from that the (Podocarpaceae). Synonymous ones for the kind are: Podocarpus sect. Sundacarpus, Stachycarpus sect. Sundacarpus, and Prumnopitys section Sundacarpus. Synonymous ones for the kind are: Podocarpus amarus, Nageia amara, Stachycarpus amarus, Prumnopitys amara, Podocarpus eurhynchus, Nageia eurhyncha, Podocarpus dulcamarus, and Podocarpus pedunculatus. The kind names amarus = bitterly and in former times dulcamarus = bitter-sweetly refer to those bitterly and/or bitterly and tasting sweet sheets.

Spreading

The spreading is enough from Australia: Northeast coast of Queensland (main the Atherton Tafelland on basal tables soils in altitudes of 600 to 1200 m NN), over new Guinea (there very frequent), the Molukken (Buru, Halmaheira, Morotai), the small Sunda islands (Timor, Flores, western Sumbawa, Lombok), by Java, central and southwest Celebes (Bonthain), the Philippines (Mindanao, Luzon), in Borneo only in Sabah, until Sumatra.

Description

Those are evergreen trees, which reach stature heights of 10 to 60 m and master diameters from 12 to 140 cm. The small, spherical Blattkospen is protected of 2mm long shed. The in the youth phase are 4 to 12 (to 20) mm long, with a 3 to 5 mm are enough for Blattsiel and 20 mm are enough for Older plants have longer sheets, which are wide about 5 to 15 cm long and 6 to 14 mm.

The male taps are 15 to 35 mm long and have a diameter from 2,5 to 3.5 mm. The seeds have a diameter of 20 mm. The Kotyledonen is three pairs.

The wood is used.

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• Information to the kind. (English)

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