Halocarpus bidwillii (Hook. f. ex T. Kirk) C.J. Quinn 1982

Common Names

Bog pine, tarwood (3).

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Dacrydium bidwillii Hooker f. ex T. Kirk 1878 (2). Possible natural hybrids, H. bidwillii × H. biforme and H. bidwillii × Lepidothamnus laxifolius have been brought into cultivation in New Zealand (3).

Description

"An erect or prostrate, densely branched shrub [0.6-3 m] high, the lower branches sometimes rooting and forming plants up to [6 m] across. Leaves very variable, those of young plants and of the lower branches of old plants, spreading, crowded, linear, stalkless, [6-10 mm] long; the leaves of upper branches, particularly of old specimens, small, scale-like, triangular, blunt, leathery, [1-2 mm] long. Male strobili solitary, [2.5-3 mm] long. Seeds one or two, striate, compressed, blunt, about [2.5 mm] long, with a fleshy white aril" (3).

Range

New Zealand, chiefly in the subalpine zones of the South Island and Stewart Island (3).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

New Zealand, chiefly in the subalpine zones of the South Island and Stewart Island (3).

Observations

Remarks

See also: Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers .

Citations

(1) Silba 1986 .
(2) Quinn 1982 .
(3) Dallimore & Jackson 1967 .

See also:
Allan 1961 .
Cassie. 1954. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 35:268.
Kirk. 1889. Forest Flora of New Zealand.


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