Podocarpus rubens De Laub.

Tree 2-30 m tall, 4-36 cm diam. Foliage buds 2-3 mm long, the primary scales erect or slightly spreading. Developing leaves bright red. Juvenile leaves linear, narrowly acuminate, becoming apiculate, 6-8 by 1.1-1.4 cm, narrowing at the base to a 2-3 mm petiole. Adult leaves linear to elliptic, 3-6 by 0.6-1 cm, apex acute to rounded and often apiculate, base same as juvenile leaves, margin revo-lute, midrib above 0.3 mm high with vertical sides, 0.3 mm wide. Pollen cones solitary or in threes, sessile or on a short peduncle. Receptacle becoming first red then purple.

Scattered as a medium-sized, substage tree in primary rain-forest mostly above 1500 m but as low as 800 m on smaller islands or locally common to dominant as a small tree on ridges between 2000 and 3000 m or occasionally higher. Mostly on lato-sols, in New Guinea in Fagaceous mossy forest, rarely in swampy forest on peaty soils with Dacrydium.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.