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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hesperocyparis macrocarpa (Hartw. ex Gordon) Bartel in Adams et al., Phytologia 91(1): 182 (2009)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw., 2: 187 (1847)
- ≡ Callitropsis macrocarpa (Hartw.) D.P.Little, Syst. Bot. 31: 474 (2006)
- ≡ Neocupressus macrocarpa (Hartw.) de Laubenfels, Novon 19: 304 (2009)
Description
Medium-sized tree (sometimes very large in cultivation), pyramidal at first, with broad crown when mature. Bark thick, reddish brown beneath, often becoming whitish on surface. Adult foliage in dense, dark green masses, aromatic when bruised; branchlets systems not flattened. 1–3-year shoots terete, reddish brown, with lvs appressed except for the cuspidate, pungent, c. 1 mm long apex. Lvs on ultimate twigs uniform, 1–2 mm long, broadly rhombic-ovate, tightly appressed, obtuse or subacute. ♂ strobili 1.5–3 mm long, broad-oblong to subglobose. Mature ♀ cones very shortly stalked or sometimes subsessile, (1.5)–2–3.5 × (1.2)–1.5 × 3.2 cm, subglobose or broadly oblong-ellipsoid, shining brown; scales 8–14; umbo with small, obtuse, crescent-shaped process; seeds usually 10–20 per scale, of irregular shape, with small resinous tubercles.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw. ex Gordon]
Biostatus
Exotic
Bibliography
Adams, R.P.; Bartel, J.A.; Price, R.A. 2009: A new genus, Hesperocyparis, for the cypresses of the western hemisphere. Phytologia 91(1): 160–185.
Christenhusz, M.J.M.; Reveal, J.L.; Farjon, A.; Gardner, M.F.; Mill, R.R.; Chase, M.W. 2011: A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa 19: 55–70.
Connor, H.E. 1977: The Poisonous Plants in New Zealand. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington. [as Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.]
de Laubenfels, D.J. 2009: Nomenclatural actions for the New World Cypresses (Cupressaceae). Novon 19: 300–306.
Edwards, R. 2008: Lincoln University campus – a guide to some of the trees currently growing there. Lincoln University, Lincoln.
Farjon, A 2001: World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers. Edition 2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond. [as Callitropsis macrocarpa (Hartw.) D.P.Little; Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.; Neocupressus macrocarpa (Hartw.) de Laubenfels]
Hartweg, T. 1847: Journal of mission to California in search of plants. Part III. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London 2: 187–191.
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42. [as Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw.]
Little, D.L. 2006: Evolution and circumscription of the true Cypresses (Cupressaceae: Cupressus. Systematic Botany 31(3): 461–480.
Terry, R.G.; Bartel, J.A.; Adams, R.P. 2012: Phylogenetic relationships among the New World cypresses (Hesperocyparis; Cupressaceae): evidence from noncoding chloroplast DNA sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 1987–2000.
Zhu, A.; Fan, W.S.; Adams, R.P.; Mower, J.P. 2018: Phylogenomic evidence for ancient recombination between plastid genomes of the Cupressus-Juniperus-Xanthocyparis complex (Cupressaceae). BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 18(137): 1–10.
