Podocarpus pilgeri Foxw.

Tree 1-25 m tall, 8-60 cm diam.; bole to 12 m, rarely fluted. Foliage buds 2.5-3 mm long (or sometimes shorter). Juvenile leaves linear, up to 7 cm by broadly acute and apiculate. Adult shade leaves ovate, widest part closer to the apex, 2-4 cm 5-8 mm, abruptly rounded at the apex, nar-rowing more gradually at the base to a short 2-3 mm petiole; exposed leaves elliptic, 2.5-4 cm by 4-6 mm, acute, revolute, with intermediate forms towards shade leaves common; midrib above on all leaves 0.2 mm wide and high. Pollen cones often elongating in the basal scaly part to 3 mm. Female receptacle becoming red when mature (dark violet has also been reported). Seed with its covering without a crest.

Scattered and locally common in moist and often mossy forest, (700-) 1200-1300 m, as a medium-sized tree, but dwarfed on ridges and at high elevation. Mostly in the understory, in beech forest with mossy undergrowth, associated with Phyllocladus and Myrsine, in New Guinea in elfin woodland on Mt Hunstein and on Mt Nettoti in low Xanthomyrtus-Podocarpus crest forest.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.