Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
Tree: Small tree or shrub with erect branches (1).Leaves: Mature leaves 5-10 mm, juvenile leaves longer, occasionally remaining on cone-bearing branches (1).
Cones: Solitary or several together on fruiting branchlets, remaining on the branches after maturity, usually depressed-globose, 20-30 mm in diameter (1).
Cone scales: Bearing a dorsal point near the apex; alternate scales narrower, tapering to the apex and usually shorter, larger scales broader and angled above; columella 1-4 mm long, 3-lobed or 3-angled (1).
Range
Australia: NSW. "Grows in rocky places, especially on sandstone escarpments in the coastal ranges, from Mt Coricudgy south to Eden" (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Harden 1990.See also: Silba 1986.
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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 7-Feb-1999