Podocarpaceae occurs as big personal of in the main Southern Hemisphere conifers, with 18-19 genera & astir 170-200 metal money of evergreen trees and shrubs. A personal occurs as classic member of the Antarctic flora, with its independent centres of diversity around Australasia, particularly New Caledonia, Tasmania and New Zealand, and to the slightly lesser extent, Malesia and South America (in the latter, primarily in the Andes mountains). Many genera extend n of the equator into Indo-China and/or the Philippines. Podocarpus additionally reaches when far n as southern Japan and southern China in Asia and Mexico in the Americas, and Nageia into southern China and southern India. Both genera too occur around sub-Saharan Africa, the far flung Podocarpus & a indigenous Afrocarpus.

1 metal money, Parasitaxus usta, is unique when a merely known parasitic conifer. It occurs in New Caledonia, where these are parasitical in a second member of the Podocarpaceae, Falcatifolium taxoides.

A genus Phyllocladus, here involved withwithin Podocarpaceae in hereditary grounds to believe, is treated by occasionally plant scientist in its have personal Phyllocladaceae.

Reference
Quinn, C. J. & Price, R. The. Evolution of the Southern Hemisphere Coniferous tree. Proc. For International Coniferous tree Conference 129-136 (2003).