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Dacrydium balansae Brongniart and Grisebach

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
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/po/da_m/balansae.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98

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