Podocarpus neriifolius

Podocarpus neriifolius
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Araucariales
Family:	Podocarpaceae
Genus:	Podocarpus
Species:	P. neriifolius
Binomial name
Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don (1824)
Synonyms [2]
Margbensonia neriifolia(D.Don) A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan (1998) Nageia neriifolia(D.Don) Kuntze (1891) Nageia endlicheriana(Carrière) Kuntze (1891) Podocarpus annamiensis var. hainanensisGaussen (1976), without type. Podocarpus endlicherianusCarrière (1855) Podocarpus macrophyllus var. acuminatissimusE.Pritz. (1900)

Podocarpus neriifolius, commonly known as the Jati Brown pine, ^[3] is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It ranges from Nepal, eastern India, and Bangladesh through parts of Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines). ^{[2] [4] : 400–401}

Previously the species was thought to range eastwards as far as Fiji. David J. de Laubenfels identified the eastern populations from New Guinea to Fiji as a separate species, Podocarpus idenburgensis , distinguished by narrow, acute leaves. ^[5]

Botany

It grows 10–15 metres (33–49 feet) tall, though very occasionally taller, in tropical and subtropical wet closed forests, between 650 m (2,130 ft) and 1,600 m (5,200 ft)elevation. ^[6] In Cambodia however it grows in a dwarf form some 2–4 m (6 ft 7 in – 13 ft 1 in) tall, at Bokor, some 1,000 m (3,300 ft) elevation. It can grow in a variety of places like rocky hill-tops, swampy forest, kerangas, on limestone and sandstone soils. ^{[4] : 401}

It has a yellowish wood, used in construction in Cambodia (called srô:l in Khmer), where it is graded 2nd category (not as good as 1st, but above others). ^[6]

References

1. Farjon, A. (2013). "Podocarpus neriifolius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013 e.T42521A2984612. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42521A2984612.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
2. Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 4 March 2024.
3. "Podocarpus neriifolius (brown pine) description". conifers.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
4. de Laubenfels, David J. (1984). "Podocarpaceae". Flora Malesiana. 10 (1): 351–419 – via Naturalis Institutional Repository.
5. David J. de Laubenfels "New Sections and Species of Podocarpus Based on the Taxonomic Status of P. neriifolius (Podocarpaceae) in Tropical Asia," Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 24(2), 133-152, (22 September 2015). https://doi.org/10.3417/2012091
6. Dy Phon Pauline, 2000, Plants Used In Cambodia, printed by Imprimiere Olympic, Phnom Penh