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Cephalotaxus griffithii Hook.f.wfo-0000594956

Fl. Br. Ind. 5: 648. 1888; Raizada & Sahni, Indian Forest. Rec. n.s. Bot. 5: 106. pl. 3. f. 1. 1960; Suvatabandhu, J. natn. Res. Coun. Thailand 2: 61. 1961.

Accepted Name : Cephalotaxus manii Hook.f.
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1523 1886.

Description : A medium-sized tree, bark brownish, smooth, defoliating inlongitudinal scrolls Leaves 2–5 by 0.2–0.4 cm, glossy green above, white beneath; apex acute; base rounded truncate or partly subcordate. Seed ellipsoid, ± 1.2 by 2.5 cm, with a short apical point and attenuate towards the base.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai; NORTH-EASTERN: Loei.

Distribution : India (type), Burma.

Ecology : In the lower montane forests, 1,000–1,800 m alt.

Vernacular : Makham pom dong (มะขามป้อมดง).

Uses: Wood used for furniture, but rarely so in Thailand owing to the inaccessibility of its habitat.

E-version notes : See Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden.