Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Syn: Dacrydium fonkii (Phil.) Bentham 1880 (3). See Dacrydium for details.Description
A densely branched, usually prostrate shrub up to 60 cm tall, with short, slender erect branchlets up to 5 mm in diameter. Leaves scale-like, triangular-ovate, obtuse, closely pressed, keeled on the back, apex blunt and incurved, 4-5 × 3-4 mm. Male cones ca. 6 × 2 mm, the scales ca. 1 mm, subtended by basal bracts, terminal on branches. Seeds at the apex of branchlets, ovoid, 3-4 × ca. 2 mm. Flowers November to February (2, 4).Range
Chile: Tierra del Fuego N to 40° S in magellanic moorland and bogs at 2-20 m elevation (2).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986 (as Dacrydium fonkii).(2) Moore 1983 (as Dacrydium fonkii).
(3) Quinn 1982.
(4) Dallimore & Jackson 1967 (as Dacrydium fonkii).
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Last modified on 27-Feb-1999