Austrotaxus spicata, a Up to date Caledonia Yew or even Southern Yew, occurs as species of yew, the resole mintage in the genus Austrotaxus. Its classification has been disputed it used to exist as that, by owning occasionally suggestions that it can be better set around its have personal a Austrotaxaceae or even be related the Podocarpaceae, but recent transmitted grounds to believe site it firmly in the Taxaceae, related to the other yews in the genera Taxus and Pseudotaxus.

These are endemic to New Caledonia, occurring in the central and northern area of the island in serpentine soils at 300-1,351000 altitude.

These are the coniferous shrub or small tree, reaching 5-20 m (rarely Twenty-five m) tall sustaining cherry bark. A leaves are lanceolate, flat, 8-12 cm yearn (as much as Seventeen cm in immature plants) & Quartet millimeter wide, dark green above, by owning deuce blench green stomatal bands following; it is intended spirally on the stem.

A seed cones are drupe-like, 20-25 millimeter hanker, using the overweight aril almost completely surrounding a only seed, but sustaining a tip of the seed involved. A male (pollen) cones come 10-15 millimetre yearn, slender.

A markedly hanker leaves & big seeds readily distinguish it from either a yews in the genus Taxus.