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Lepidothamnus laxifolius
(Hook. f.) C.J. Quinn 1982
Common NamesPigmy pine or pygmy pine.Taxonomic notesSyn: Dacrydium laxifolium Hooker f. 1845 (2). See Dacrydium for details.Description"A prostrate or sub-erect shrub with slender trailing branches up to [6-9 dm] or more in length. Leaves of young plants lax, spreading, narrow-linear, acute, curved, [5-13 mm] long, passing gradually into the adult leaves, which are linear-oblong, blunt or sub-acute, [1-2 mm] long, spreading or overlapping, scale-like. Male and female strobili on the same or on different trees. Seed about [3 mm] long with a small curved point, borne on a dry or occasionally succulent and swollen receptacle" (3).RangeNew Zealand: mountainous areas at 750-1220 m elevation (3).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarks"This is one of the smallest known conifers, fruiting specimens barely [7.6 cm] high and wide being sometimes found" (3).See also Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers . Citations(1) Silba 1986 .(2) Quinn 1982 . (3) Dallimore & Jackson 1967 (as Dacrydium laxifolium ).
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