''Podocarpus neriifolius'' is a species of
conifer
Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...
in the family
Podocarpaceae. It grows 10–15m tall, though very occasionally taller, in tropical and subtropical wet closed forests, between 650m and 1600m altitude.
[Dy Phon Pauline, 2000, ''Plants Used In Cambodia'', printed by Imprimiere Olympic, Phnom Penh] In
Cambodia however it grows in a dwarf form some 2–4m tall, at
Bokor, some 1000m elevation.
It is found in
India,
Bangladesh,
Nepal,
China
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,
Myanmar
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,
Thailand,
Laos
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, Cambodia,
Vietnam,
Malaysia,
Indonesia,
Brunei, the
Philippines,
Papua New Guinea,
Solomon Islands,
Fiji
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and
Bhutan
Its common name in
Khmer is ''srô:l''.
It has a yellowish wood, used in construction in Cambodia, where it is graded 2nd category (not as good as 1st, but above others).
References
neriifolius
Trees of China
Flora of tropical Asia
Least concern plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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