Callitris columellaris

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• Description
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• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Cupressaceae

Trees or shrubs evergreen , monoecious or dioecious. Leaves decussate or in whorls of 3, scalelike and then often dimorphic with flattened facial leaves and keeled lateral leaves, or needlelike particularly in juvenile plants , often with an abaxial resin gland . Pollen cones terminal or axillary , solitary, maturing and shed annually; microsporophylls 6-16, decussate or whorled , each bearing (2 or) 3-6(-9) pollen sacs ; pollen wingless. Seed cones usually terminal, solitary, globose , ovoid , or oblong , dehiscent or indehiscent when mature in 1st or 2nd(or 3rd) year; cone scales developing after ovules originate in bract axils; bracts almost completely enveloped by cone scales, free only at apex; ovules 1-numerous per bract axil, erect ; cone scales of mature cones 3-16, flat or peltate, woody, leathery, or succulent, 1-20-seeded. Seeds winged or not; wings derived from seed coat . Cotyledons usually 2, rarely 3-6. Germination epigeal.

Nineteen genera and ca. 125 species: worldwide; eight genera (one introduced ) and 46 species (16 endemic, 13 introduced) in China.[1]

Genus Callitris

Shrubs or trees evergreen . Branchlets angled or furrowed-cylindrical, variously oriented. Leaves in whorls of 3--5. Adult leaves scalelike, appressed , abaxial surface keeled or rounded , free portion to 1 mm, abaxial glands absent. Pollen cones solitary or in small clusters , with 4--15 whorls of sporophylls, each with 2--4 pollen sacs . Seed cones maturing in 1--2 years, of 1--2 sizes, often remaining unopened for many years, ovoid or globose , 1--3.5 cm; scales persistent , in 2 equally inserted whorls of 3(--4), valvate , rhombic-deltate, basifixed , thick and woody. Seeds 2--9 per scale, round or 3-angled, broadly 1--3-winged; cotyledons 2.

Species 16 (1 natura: North America, Australia, and New Caledonia.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,397 meters (0 to 4,583 feet).[3]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Callitris arenosa A. Cunn. Ex R. T. Baker & H. G. Smith • Callitris columellaris auct. non F. J. Muell. • Callitris columellaris var. campestris Silba • Callitris columellaris var. intratropica (R. T. Baker & H. G. Smith) Silba • Callitris columellaris var. microcarpa (Benth.) Govaerts • Callitris glauca R. Br. Ex R. T. Baker & H. G. Smith • Callitris glaucophylla J. Thompson & L. A. S. Johnson • Callitris intratropica R. T. Baker & H. G. Smith • Frenela columellaris (F. Muell.) Parl. • Frenela moorei Parl. • Frenela robusta var. microcarpa Benth. • Frenela verrucosa var. laevis Moore • Octoclinis backhousii W. Hill • Widdringtonia equisetiformis Mast.

Notes

Publishing author : F.Muell. Publication : Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1865 (Nov. 1865)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Callitris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. canescens (Scrubby Cypress Pine) · C. columellaris (White Cypress-Pine) · C. drummondii (Drummond's Cypress) · C. endlicheri (Black Cypress Pine) · C. macleayana (Stringybark Pine) · C. monticola (Steelhead) · C. muelleri (Illawara Pine) · C. oblonga (Pigmy Cypress-Pine) · C. preissii (Rottnest Islandpine) · C. rhomboidea (Oyster Bay Pine) · C. roei (Roe's Cypress Pine) · C. verrucosa (Scrub Cypress-Pine)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 114, p. 155, p. 159, p. 160, p. 203, p. 205, p. 207, p. 208.
• Forestry handbook / ed. by R. Dalrymple Hay, director of forests. Sydney: W. A. Gullick, 1915-17. url p. 164, p. 166.
• Forestry handbook. .. Sydney, W. A. Gullick, government printer, 1915-17. url .
• International catalogue of scientific literature. London: Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London, 1902-1919. url p. 455, p. 656, p. 455.
• National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 70.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 586.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , , , , p. 145, p. 212, p. 227, p. 238, p. 464, p. 97.
• Report on the Natal forests. .. [S.l.: s.n.], 1889. url p. 185.
• Report on the forests of British East Africa. LondonPrinted for His Majesty's Stationery Off. by Darling1909 url p. 111.
• Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: R. S. Brain, govt. printer, 1895. url p. 91, p. 571.
• Select extra-tropical plants, readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller. .. Sydney, T. Richards, government printer, 1881. url p. 394, p. 58.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 145.
• Wang Wen-tsai, Cheng Wan-chün, Fu Li-kuo & Chu Cheng-de. 1978. Cupressaceae. In: Cheng Wan-chün & Fu Li-kuo, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 7: 313-398.
• Blake, S. T. 1959. New or noteworthy plants, chiefly from Queensland, l. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland. 70(6): 33--46.
• Garden, J. 1957. A revision of the genus Callitris Vent. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb. 2(5): 363--392.
• Thompson, J. and L. A. S. Johnson. 1986. Callitris glaucophylla, Australia's 'white cypress pine'---A new name for an old species. Telopea 2: 731--736.
• Thompson, J. 1961. Cupressaceae. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb., Fl. Ser. 1/18: 46--55.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Conifer Database. Release date: June 5, 2008
• Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Callitris columellaris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Conifer Specialist Group 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed July 17, 2006. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2774166
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-1658
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13278150
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:261760-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 501144
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 261760-1
• IUCN ID: 197127
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PGCUP01040
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CAHU3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723800

Footnotes

1. Liguo Fu, Yong-fu Yu, Robert P. Adams & Aljos Farjon "Cupressaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 62. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Richard P. Wunderlin "Callitris". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 181.970 meters (597.014 feet), Standard Deviation = 495.630 based on 548 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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