Nageia fleuryi (Hickel) de Laub.

A vulnerable species in China.

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 70 cm d.b.h.; bark brownish purple, smooth, peeling in thin flakes. Leaves opposite, decussate, held with abaxial surface always uppermost; petiole 2-5 (-10) mm, usually rather indistinct, rotation not continuing along internode; blade dark green and shining abaxially, elliptic or broadly lanceolate, 8-18 × 2.2-5 cm, leathery, stomatal lines present on abaxial surface only, base cuneate, apex abruptly acuminate. Bracts deciduous. Pollen cones axillary, in clusters of 3-6, sessile, elongate-cylindric, 1.5-6.5 cm × ca. 4 cm; microsporophylls triangular. Seed-bearing structures axillary; peduncle scaly, not enlarged, 2-2.8 cm at seed maturity; ovules 1 or 2(or 3), sessile in axils of subterminal bracts, only 1 ovule maturing. Receptacle absent. Epimatium green, turning bluish purple when ripe. Seed globose, 1.5-1.8 cm in diam. Pollination Mar-Apr, seed maturity Oct-Nov. 2n = 26*.

Guangdong (Gaoyao Xian, Longmen Xian, Zengchong Xian), Guangxi (Daxin Xian, Hepu Xian), Hainan (Wuzhi Shan), Taiwan (Taibei), SE Yunnan (Dawei Shan, Mengzi Xian, Pingbian Miaozu Zizhixian) [Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam]

Montane rainforests, evergreen broad-leaved forests, on neutral or slightly acid, lateritic or yellow-earth soils in shade or semishade; 800-900 m.

Podocarpus fleuryi Hickel, Bull. Soc. Dendrol. France 76: 75. 1930; Decussocarpus fleuryi (Hickel) de Laubenfels.

Nageia fleuryi is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a tree up to 30 metres (98 ft) tall, with pyramidal crown, found in Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces), Laos, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Its wood is highly valued and used for musical instruments, chop sticks, fine crafts and household tools.