| Noun | 1. | family Podocarpaceae - gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves gymnosperm family - a family of gymnosperms Coniferales, order Coniferales - profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves genus Podocarpus, Podocarpus - evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae Afrocarpus, genus Afrocarpus - dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus Dacrycarpus, genus Dacrycarpus - evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines Dacrydium, genus Dacrydium - Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs Falcatifolium, genus Falcatifolium - sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia genus Halocarpus, Halocarpus - dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium genus Lagarostrobus, Lagarostrobus - genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium genus Lepidothamnus, Lepidothamnus - small usually shrubby conifers genus Microstrobos, Microstrobos - 2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania genus Nageia, Nageia - small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea genus Parasitaxus, Parasitaxus - one species: parasite yew genus Prumnopitys, Prumnopitys - mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus genus Retrophyllum, Retrophyllum - small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America genus Sundacarpus, Sundacarpus - one species |