Classification
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales Gorozh.
Family
Podocarpaceae Endl.
Genus
Halocarpus Quinn
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Halocarpus kirkii (F.Muell. ex Parl.) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 318 (1982)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dacrydium kirkii F.Muell. ex Parl.
Vernacular Name(s):
Manoao; Monoao
 Description

Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark greyish brown, wood pale brownish red. Lvs of juveniles and reversion shoots 1·5–4 cm. × 1–3 mm., patent, linear, obtuse to acute to mucronate; petiole short, twisted; of adults 2–3 mm. long, obtuse, ovate-oblong to rhomboid, coriac., margin hyaline. Final branchlets 1–2 mm. diam., subterete. Male strobili solitary, terminal, sessile up to 1 cm. long; apiculus obtusely triangular. Carpidia 3–5, clustered at tips of branchlets, larger than lvs with solitary ovules. Seeds ovoid-oblong somewhat compressed, striate, 3–8 mm. long. Epimatium completely covering seed, which is pend. from the summit and free. Aril orange.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Dacrydium kirkii F.Muell. ex Parl.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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Quinn, C.J. 1982: Taxonomy of Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb. emend. de Laub. (Podocarpaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 30: 311–320.