Classification
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales Gorozh.
Family
Podocarpaceae Endl.
Genus
Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dacrydium cupressinum Sol. ex G.Forst., Pl. Esc. 80 (1786)
Synonymy:
Type not designated (New Zealand, prob. coll. D. Solander on Cook's firstt voyage).
 Description

Tree up to 35m., rarely up to 60m., trunk up to 1·5m. or more diam., bark dark brown, scaling off in thick flakes, wood dark red; branchlets slender, pend. Lvs imbricate, of juveniles 4–7 mm. or more long, 0·5–1 mm. wide, keeled, acute, linear-subulate, subfalcate, de-current; of semi-juveniles (often flowering and fruiting in this stage) ascending, incurved, c. 4 mm. long, rhomboid; of adults more appressed, 2–3 mm. long, rigid, subacute, subtrigonous. Male strobili solitary or paired, terminal 0·5–1 cm. long; apiculus ovate-acuminate. Ovules solitary, terminal on curved branchlets, ultimate lvs forming a swollen, red, succulent receptacle, or rarely dry. Carpidium embracing lower part of seed, which is about 4 mm. long, oblong-ovoid or narrow-ovoid, little compressed.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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