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Nakaii is what Maldivians call the months of the Calandar.
Each nakaii is 13 or 14 days. It is divided into two seasons. Iruvai and Hulhangu monsoon.
The said calendar remains the most trust worthy source for determining the best time for
travel, shipping and planting crops even at the present.
Podocarpus nakaii is a species of conifer in the Podocarpaceae family. It is found only in Taiwan. It is threatened by habitat loss.
[edit]Source
Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J. 1998. Podocarpus nakaii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
Podocarpus nakaii
Hayata 1916
Common names
Nakai podocarp, (Liu 1970), Nakai yellowwood.
Taxonomic notes
Syn: P. macrophyllus var. nakaii (Hayata) Li & Keng 1954; P. macrophyllus var. maki Endlicher 1847 (Li 1975). The classification used here is that chosen by de Laubenfels (1985), who regards P. macrophyllus var. maki as a synonym for P. chinensis.
Description
A medium-sized tree, to 60 cm in diameter. Bark grayish red-brown, breaking up into longitudinal thin shaggy flakes, flakes 1-2 cm. wide, 0.5 mm. thick; lenticels inconspicuous, outer bark 2-3 mm. in thickness, fibrous, with a reddish brown cross-section; newly formed periderm pale reddish brown; inner bark 2-6 mm. thick, pale reddish orange, immediately becoming pale yellowish brown after cutting, finely fibrous; cambium and newly formed phloem white in color. Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 6-8 cm long, 8-12 mm broad, straight or slightly falcate, dark green above, silver-green beneath, the base cuneate, acute or shortly attenuate; petioles very short, about 5 mm long. Staminate strobilus 4-6 cm. long. Seeds solitary, axillary, obliquely ovoid, acute at the apex, 1 cm long, 8 mm wide; receptacle fleshy, pale red at maturity in April, obliquely onconical-globose, 2-lobed, 5-12 mm long; peduncles 2-12 mm long. Freshly cut sapwood pale apricot yellow, wood rays inconspicuous (Liu 1970, Li 1975).
Range
Taiwan: "the northern and central parts of the island, scattered in broad-leaved forests" (Li 1975).
The IUCN reports that this species is facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future, due to recent and ongoing exploitation within a range that is already severely fragmented, with total population size estimated at fewer than 2,500 mature plants and no subpopulation containing more than 250 mature plants.
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