Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Description
"Stem [1-2 m] or more high, tapering upwards from a greatly enlarged base. Bark dark brown, roughened by large lenticels and horizontal stripes. Branching corymbose, with terminal tufts of branchlets like squirrel-tails, densely clothed with long, curved, needle-leaves, [12-16 mm] long, persisting 9-12 or more years. Male Strobili subterminal and sessile, about [12 mm] long. Female on short lateral branchlets" (1).Range
New Caledonia (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.See also:
Silba 1986.
Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris. 1949. 21:282.
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