Classification
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales Gorozh.
Family
Podocarpaceae Endl.
Genus
Manoao Molloy
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Manoao colensoi (Hook.) Molloy, New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 196 (1995)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dacrydium colensoi Hook., Icon. Pl. 6, t.548 (1843)
  • ≡ Lagarostrobos colensoi (Hook.) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 317 (1982)
  • = Dacrydium westlandicum Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. t. 1218 (1877)
Vernacular Name(s):
Manawau; Manoao; Monoao; Silver pine
 Description

Tree up to 15m., trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark brownish grey. Lvs of juveniles 6–12 mm. long, narrow-linear-subulate, subterete, decurrent; of semi-juveniles (sts flowering and fruiting in this stage) 3–4·5 mm. long, narrow-lanceolate, acute, subfalcate, flattish, subdistichous; of adults 1–2.5 mm. long, rhomboid, obtuse to subacute, coriac., keeled, imbricate, appressed. Ultimate branchlets c. 1·5 mm. diam. Male strobili solitary, terminal, 3–5 mm. long or more, c. 1·5 mm. wide; apiculus short, triangular, acute. Ovules solitary or paired, terminal, final scale lvs thin, rather lax, spreading; epimatium transversely keeled, about ?-1/2 length of seed, which is 2–4 mm. long, broadly ovoid-oblong, black.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Dacrydium colensoi Hook.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
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Hooker, W.J. 1843: Icones Plantarum. Vol. 6. Baillière, London.
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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.