Callitris monticola

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

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]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : J.Garden Publication : Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1956 (18 Jan. 1956)

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

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 20.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 96.
• 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 Specialist Group 1998. Callitris monticola. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3497142
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-1688
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13278150
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294853-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 133943-3
• IUCN ID: 197131
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723816

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]

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