Podocarpus bracteatus Blume

Tree 10-40 m tall, 15-100 cm diam. Foliage buds 5-12 mm long. Juvenile leaves up to 23 by 2 cm. Adult leaves distinctly lanceolate, 6-14 cm by 9-14 mm, narrowly acute, narrowing at the base to a 2-4 mm petiole, sometimes with 5 vascular resin canals, midrib above a sharp ridge 0.4 mm wide and 0.3 mm high, sometimes collapsing when dried into a trough. Pollen cones 3.5-6 cm by 3-4 mm, sessile but elongating when mature through the scaly base as well as the zone of microsporophylls and the scales then following, the elongated scaly base up to 8 mm long, solitary or occasionally in pairs; apex of microsporophyll c. 1 mm long. Seed-bearing structure on a 10-20 mm peduncle; foliola 4-5 mm long; receptacle 10-14 mm long, often with two fertile bracts and additional bracts between them. Seed with its covering including a small crest, 11-14 by 7 mm.

A scattered canopy tree of moist, evergreen montane tropical rainforest, most commonly found on forested volcanoes of Jawa; at elevations from 1,000-2,600 metres.

Uses. An excellent timber tree.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.