Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
"A tree up to [7.6 m] high with ascending fastigiate branches. Leaves arranged in many rows, thick, rigid, scale-like, densely overlapping, narrowly lanceolate, strongly curved. Male Strobili solitary, cylindrical. Seed ovoid, compressed" (2).Range
New Caledonia (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.
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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 21-Dec-98