Key II

1. Persistent bud-scales vestigial, minute, 0.3–0.8 mm long, scarcely imbricate...….................…—2 1. Persistent bud-scales conspicuous, 1.0–1.5 mm long, imbricate………....................…….……—3 2. Leaves linear, acuminate, strongly revolute in upper third; Vietnam; Taiwan, Sulawesi; Fig. 45....—10. *T. rehderiana* 2. Leaves oblong to linear, obtuse to acute, uniformly plane to recurved along margins; South Vietnam (rare), SW China (common); Fig. 46–48.................................……—6. *T. chinensis*
Fig. 46–48 (from left to right): Taxus chinensis. Fig. 46: from Sichuan, Wang 22602 (A), with linear acute leaves. Fig. 47: from Hubei, China,,Cho 76099 (A), with oblong obtuse leaves characteristic of the species. Fig. 48: from W Hubei, Wilson 624 (A), morph with complanate leaves, showing bud-scale scars at base of branchlets, compare leaf shape with T. canadensis var. adpressa.

3.Dried leaf surfaces ±concolorous, or yellowish green on abaxial surface; bud-scales at base of branchlets overlapping in many ranks; SW China.................... —4 3.Dried leaf surfaces discolorous, or yellowish orange on abaxial surface; bud-scales at base of branchlets in 1–2 ranks; SW China, Philippines, Indonesia.......... —5 4. Leaves acute, apiculate, 1.5-2.0 mm broad, convex and smooth above; Fig. 52............................................................................ —11. *T. scutata* 4. Leaves obtuse, blunt, 3.0-3.5 mm broad, plane and rugose on upper surface; Fig. 53.............................................................—8. *T. ocreata*
	Fig 52 (left): Taxus scutata, from Yunnan, Tsai 18464 (A), showing loose spreading scales at base of branchlets. Fig. 53 (right): Taxus ocreata from Yunnan, Feng 11937 (A), holotype, showing adnate scales at base of branchlets, cone scales, and unattached seed..
5. Branchlets and leaves mostly not overlapping; leaves parallel at nearly right angles, persistent; Nepal, NE India, Malaya, China (Taiwan, Yunnan), Philippines................................................. —9. *T. phytonii* 5. Branchlets and leaves crisscrossing, leaves often at oblique angles, falling off by the 3rd yr; Myanmar, China (Fujian), Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi, Sumatra)..................................................—7. *T. obscura*


Figs.54–58: Taxus phytonii (Figs. 54–55) and T. obscura (Figs. 56–58). Fig. 54 (upper left): from Taiwan, Wilson 11154 (A, holotype). Fig. 55 (upper right): from Yunnan, Tsai 59874 (A). Fig. 56 (lower left): from Philippines, de Laubenfels P669 (GH). Fig. 57-58 (lower right): from Philippines, illus. of T-sect. (Fig. 57) and view of abaxial surface of leaf (Fig. 58) showing leaf margin (left) to midrib (right) , drawn from Curran s.n. (US). Note contrast in color between upper and lower surfaces, and the similarity to T. chinensis in leaf sections.