English: Podocarps; Yellow-wood family.
Genera: 19; ± 180 species.
Region: Southern Hemisphere
BotanyTrees and shrubs; evergreen; conifers.
Roots: with nodules;
leaves: dioecious; fleshy; 2 cotyledons.
Gynoecium: 1 ovule/scale; cone often one seeded receptacle and, or epimatium orcarpidium.
TaxonomyPodocarpaceae is a
Family in the Order
Pinales. They are common in the Southern hemisphere, supporting the view that the
Podocarpaceae had an extensive distribution over southern Gondwanaland.
In the
Plant theory Podocarpaceae is in
Pinales,
Pinidae.
Podocarpaceae is placed in
Subphase 3.