PODOCARPACEAE. Trees, shrubs and small undershrubs, mostly dioecious. Megasporophylls not numerous in the cone, each bearing a single, usually inverted ovule. Male cones with spiral or sometimes whorled sporophylls, each with two pollen sacs. Pollen often winged, with a group of two or more persistent prothallial cells (except in Pherosphacra). Archegonia separate, each with its own jacket cells, as in Araucariaceae, but apical, not lateral (except in Pherosphacra and MTicrocachrys).
*Flat expanded branches and no true foliage leaves. Ovules erect. Phyllocladus.
**Normal foliage leaves.
Megasporophylls solitary or in pairs, or a few very laxly arranged on a strobilus, but never joining to cover the more or less inverted ovules.
°Pollen winged. Ovules always fully invert ed, on a swollen stalk and solitary or in pairs. Podocarpus.
ooPollcn not winged. Ovule sessile and not fully inverted. Dacrydium.
. f M1egasporophylls in a cone, growing together so as to enclose the ovules.
°Ovules more or less inverted. Epimatium present.
§Monoecious. Leaves needle-like. Saxe gothea.
§§Dioecious. Leaves scale-like. Micro cachrys.
0 Ovules erect and axillary. No epimatium. Pheros phaera<