Afrocarpus (J. Buchholz & N. E. Gray) C. N. Page

Evergreen dioecious trees, up to 60 m high but usually smaller. Bark thin, often peeling. Leaves spirally arranged or opposite in young plants, linear to lanceolate, flat, leathery, with a single visible midrib. Stomata present found on both surfaces. Male pollen cones and female seed cones borne on separate plants. Cones shortly pedunculate, developing from axillary buds. Male cones 2-3 together, narrowly cylindrical, catkin-like. Cones with numerous, microsporophylls each with two basal pollen sacs. Female cones solitary. Small scale-like leaves present on the peduncles. Sterile cone scales and one fertile cone scale present in each cone. Sterile scales withering as the cone matures, not forming a fleshy receptacle as in Podocarpus. Seeds drupe-like, subglobose to elliptic or obovoid, greenish to yellow or brown.

Derivation of name: Afro-, referring to the African origin of this genus.

Worldwide: 3-6 species in tropical and South Africa.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.