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Common Names
Tasmanian cedar (2).Taxonomic notes
A genus of two species and one hybrid, or (in this treatment) three species.Description
Monoecious evergreen trees with bark peeling off in thin, long strips. Branchlets spreading, thick, ultimate branchlets deciduous. Buds inconspicuous. Leaves homomorphic, scale-like and appressed or lanceolate and loosely disposed, uniform in shape and size, thick, with faint or prominent stomata. Male cones solitary, catkin-like, with imbricate spirally arranged aments, anthers 2-celled. Female cones woody, globose, maturing in one year, with many triangular scales; scales with a small recurved apical umbo or scales thing, papery and without umbos. Seeds 3-6 per scale, oblong, thin, with 2 narrow even wings. Cotyledons 2 (1).Range
The temperate rain forests of Tasmania (2).Big Tree
See A. selaginoides.Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
See also Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers.Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) "Tasmanian cedar," Britannica Online.
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