Podocarpus laubenfelsii

Tiong (1984)

Common names

There are none recorded. The scientific name transliterates as Laubenfels' podocarp.

Taxonomic notes

No data as of 2026-01-20.

Description

"Tree, 14–35 m tall, 20–60 cm diam. Foliage buds 2.5–4 mm long, the tips of the primary scales generally spreading. Juvenile leaves 11–24 by 1.7–2.4 cm. Adult leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 7–19 × 1–1.8 cm, narrowly acute to acuminate, narrowing more or less abruptly at the base to a 6–14 mm petiole, upper side of midrib a blunt ridge 0.8–1.2 mm wide and 0.2–0.3 mm high. Buds for pollen cones on a peduncle to 6 mm long or less commonly sessile. Pollen cones grouped (3–)4(–5), 2–4 cm long; microsporophylls more or less elongated. Seed with its covering at least 8 mm long but fully mature examples unknown" (de Laubenfels 1988).

Distribution and Ecology

Indonesia (Kalimantan); Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah). Scattered in primary rainforest and moss forest, growing as a large emergent on rocky ridges on kerangas, dominant in heath forests and on waterlogged acid soils of Agathis forests; at 600–1600 m elevation (de Laubenfels 1988).

The IUCN reports that this species is in decline. It is facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild due to severe fragmentation of its geographic range, coupled with ongoing loss of habitat.

Remarkable Specimens

No data as of 2026-01-20.

Ethnobotany

No data as of 2026-01-20.

Observations

No data as of 2026-01-20.

Remarks

The epithet honors David J. de Laubenfels (1926-2016). He described 81 currently-recognized species of conifers, over thrice as many as anyone else, all of them tropical species in the Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae.

Citations

Tiong, S. K. K. 1984. Blumea 29(2):523.

See also

The species account at Threatened Conifers of the World.