Afrocarpus falcatus (Thunb.) C. N. Page

Afrocarpus falcatus occurs in the high, moist forests lining rivers in the southern Cape, where it attains its greatest size in the Knysna Forest just above sea level. Several of the very large trees here may be 1,000-1,500 years old and the species is thus another of the large, emergent, long-lived conifers. Eastwards and northwards it ascends to higher elevations (alt. range 500-1,700 m a.s.l.) and is restricted to patches of moist forest in ravines and wooded slopes exposed to oceanic winds that bring rain. Here it attains only 25 m or less. In the coastal forests it is associated with Podocarpus latifolius, Ocotea bullata, Celtis africana, Ilex mitis, Nuxia spp. and Olea spp. and the large podocarp trees are usually solitary, isolated individuals or occasionally form a small group. Presumably their regeneration is dependent on episodic canopy disturbance similar to e.g. Podocarpus totara in New Zealand and many other big, long-lived conifers.

The global population consists of many scattered occurrences in southern Africa and an outlier in northern Malawi on the Vipya Plateau.

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This species is present in several protected areas, such as the Knysna Forest in South Africa.