Prumnopitys Phil.

Densely branched dioecious trees to 60 m tall. Bark smooth, fibrous, and reddish to yellowish brown, often darker on the surface but weathering to gray, on older trees breaking off in irregular more or less quadrangular plates 3-5 mm thick and 3-10 cm across, with scattered lenticel-like mounds. Foliage buds small and inconspicuous with overlapping triangular scales. Leaves spirally placed, bifacially flattened, linear, uninerved, without hypoderm, hypostomat-ic, narrowed at the decurrent base with a twist where the leaf leaves the stem so that the leaves appear distichous. Pollen cones axillary and solitary or grouped on scaly spike (or even compound structures). Seed with its covering solitary and subterminal or grouped along a scaly or leafy shoot, inverted and completely covered by a fleshy epimatium with an apical crest; the seed with a slightly asymmetrical ridge at the micropylar end.

Uses. Several species are important timber trees.