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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Trees or shrubs with dense branching. Bark fissured or plated. Leaves spirally arranged, all alike on one shoot; juvenile leaves awl-shaped, spreading, apex acute, sharp-tipped; adult leaves needle-like or scale-like, overlapping. Seed-bearing structure axillary near shoot tip; bracts several, bases greatly enlarged, fleshy and red when mature. Seed naked, inverted at first, turning erect when mature; base cupped by membranous scale. Worldwide: 25 species from SE Asia to New Zealand. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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