Taxaceae

• Amentotaxus formosana

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• Family: Taxaceae Gray

• Country of Origin: Taiwan
• Habitat: South Taiwan monsoon rainforest

• Description: Tree to 20 m tall and 25 cm dbh, with a wide, ovate crown. "Twigs opposite, smooth or slightly lined, green or glaucous, turning yellow, yellowish or yellow-grey after 2-3 years. Leaves subopposite, arranged into 2 rows, 3.5-10(15) cm long and 8-15 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate or linear, straight or curved on upper part, obtuse or pointed with subrounded or broadly cuneate base. Margin slightly revolute. Midrib evident above, flat beneath, two bands of stomata on both surfaces, usually white or grey, 2-4 mm wide. In leaf-buds, band of stomata often narrower. Female cone spike-like, with 4-6 spikes at the branch-tips, 10-15 cm long. Each stamen bears 4-8 anthers (usually 6-7). Fruit often solitary on the annual branches, downcurved, ovate, 2.2-2.8 cm long and 1.4 cm wide. Pericarp violet-red when mature, slightly covered with white powder. Stalk stout, 1.5 cm long, lower part flat, upper part quadrangular"

  From Forest Inventory and Planning Institute. 1996. Vietnam forest trees. Hanoi: Agricultural Publishing House. Pp 1-23.