Podocarpus levis De Laub.

Tree, 8—25(—35) m tall, 16-40 cm diam. Foliage buds 3-9 mm long, the primary scales spreading. Juvenile leaves up to 20 by 1.5 cm, narrowly acute. Adult leaves linear-lanceolate, 8-14 by 1-1.4 cm, acute or narrowly rounded at the apex, narrowing at the base to a 4-9 mm petiole, stiff, upper hypoder-mal fibres in a continuous layer, upper midrib a low blunt ridge 0.3-0.5 mm wide and 0.1-0.2 mm high which furthermore often collapses upon drying so that the leaf appears smooth or even channeled, often with five vascular resin canals. Pollen cones typical of the section or longer, up to 8 cm long, solitary or in groups of up to three. Receptacle often with two bracts fertile and then sometimes with a third shorter sterile bract on one side between the other two, red when mature; foliola 2-4 mm long. Seed with its covering 12-13 by c. 8 mm.

A scattered tree, locally common, in evergreen primary rainforest; growing on various substrates including limestome; at elevations from near sea level to 1,650 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.