 | Dacrydium araucarioides Brongniart and GrisebachCommon NamesTaxonomic notesSyn: D. arthrotaxoides (1).Description"A tree of candelabrum form, seldom exceeding [6 m] in height. Branches erect, fastigiate. Branchlets short, thick, cylindrical. Leaves of young plants linear, erect or slightly spreading, those of mature plants scale-like, linear-oblong, about [3 mm] long, and densely overlapping in many rows, rigid, strongly curved, keeled beneath, blunt at the apex. Male Strobili terminal, oblong-cylindric. Female Strobili on shoots which become purple and fleshy at the apex when the seeds are ripening. Seeds 1-3, ovoid, up to about [6 mm] long" (2).RangeNew Caledonia: generally in dry situations on serpentine rocks (2).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarksCitations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967. |
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