Microcachrys

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Microcachrys' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/microcachrys/). Accessed 2025-04-30.

Family

Podocarpaceae

Species in genus

Microcachrys tetragona

Glossary

aril: Fleshy outgrowth produced at the base of a seed (as in e.g. Taxus). Often acts to attract animal seed-dispersal agents.
family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).
prostrate: Lying flat.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Microcachrys' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/microcachrys/). Accessed 2025-04-30.

Diminutive in all its features, as demonstrated by the fallen oak leaf on this plant of Microcachrys tetragona with developing seed cones at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire, UK. 16 April 2022. Image Patrick Paul.

A genus of a single species, distinguished from other members of the Podocarpus family by the following combination of characters: habit prostrate; leaves scale-like, four-ranked; female cones with numerous fertile scales which become fleshy when ripe; seeds partly enclosed in a thin aril.

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