Callitris verrucosa

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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 568 meters (0 to 1,864 feet).[3]

Biology

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Callitris preissii Miq. var. verrucosa (A. Cunn. Ex Endl.) Silba • Callitris preissii var. verrucosa (A. Cunn. Ex Endl.) Silba • Callitris preissii verrucosa (A. Cunn. Ex Endl.) J. Garden • Frenela robusta A. Cunn. ex Mirb. var. verrucosa (A. Cunn. Ex Endl.) Benth. • Frenela robusta var. verrucosa (A. Cunn. Ex Endl.) Benth. • Frenela Robusta Verrucosa • Frenela verrucosa A. Cunn. Ex Endl.

Notes

Publishing author : R.Br. ex Mirb. Publication : M?m. Mus. Par. xiii. (1825) 74

Basionym : Cupressaceae Frenela verrucosa Endl.

Basionym author: (Endl.)

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Conservation status: LC, Habit: Tree

Last scrutiny: 5-Jun-2008

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

• A handbook of Coniferae, including Ginkgoaceæ, by W. Dallimore and A. Bruce Jackson. With drawings by Miss G. Lister. New York, Longmans, Green, 1923. url p. 173.
• A research on the pines of Australia, Sydney, W. A. Gullick, government printer, 1910. url p. 101, p. 106, p. 107, p. 109, p. 118, p. 13, p. 20, p. 37, p. 454, p. 73, p. 77, p. 82, p. 89, p. 9, p. 90.
• About trees, shrubs, and climbing plants for South Africa; concise hints on the making of farm plantations, shrubberies. .. Maritzburg, 1919. url p. 33.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 88.
• Flora of Bermuda. .. by Nathaniel Lord Britton. .. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1918. url p. 411.
• Flora of Bermuda... by Nathaniel Lord Britton... New York, Scribner, 1918. url p. 411.
• Forest culture and eucalyptus trees, San FranciscoCubery1876 url p. 186.
• Forest insects of Australia / By Walter W. Froggatt. Sydney: Printed by Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, Phiillip Street, Sydney, N.S.W., 1923. url p. 163.
• Forestry handbook / ed. by R. Dalrymple Hay, director of forests. Sydney: W. A. Gullick, 1915-17. url , p. 155, p. 159, p. 165.
• Forestry handbook. .. Sydney, W. A. Gullick, government printer, 1915-17. url , , .
• Gymnosperms; structure and evolution, by Charles Joseph Chamberlain. .. with 397 figures. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press[1935] url p. 326, p. 331.
• Hand-list of Coniferae, grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off. by Darling1903 url p. 29.
• Hand-list of Coniferae: grown in the Royal botanic gardens. London: Printed for H. M. Stationery off. by Darling & son, Ltd., 1903. url p. 29.
• 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.
• Introduction to botanic teachings at the schools of Victoria, through references to leading native plants / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: John Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1877. url p. 38.
• Irish gardening. Dublin: Pub. Office, 1906-1922 url p. 118, p. 131.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. 3 1865 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 161, p. 395.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 208, p. 318, p. 43, p. 57, p. 651.
• 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. 631, p. 636, p. 84.
• 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. 58.
• South African journal of science. [Marshalltown, Transvaal: South African Association for the Advancement of Science, url p. 282, p. 283, p. 284, p. 285, p. 286.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 27.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 64.
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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 verrucosa. 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: 3497139
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-1682
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13278150
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:134460-3
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 261792-1
• IUCN ID: 197139
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723839

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 = 150.010 meters (492.159 feet), Standard Deviation = 93.150 based on 117 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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