Halocarpus biformis (Hook.) Quinn

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Name scientific

Halocarpus biformis (Hook.) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 318 (1982)

Preferred name

Halocarpus biformis (Hook.) Quinn

Taxonomy reference

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

Linked name

Halocarpus biformis (Hook.) Quinn

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Quinn

Original authors

Hook.

Authors

(Hook.) Quinn

Publication place

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

Year published

1982

Publication page

318

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Podocarpus biformis Hook.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Halocarpus biformis

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Podocarpaceae

Genus

Halocarpus

Species

biformis

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Androstoma empetrifolium Hook.f.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Coccotrema cucurbitula (Mont.) Müll.Arg.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Frullania aterrima (Hook.f. & Taylor) Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Goebeliella cornigera (Mitt.) Steph.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Heteroscyphus menziesii (Mitt.) J.J.Engel

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Holomitrium perichaetiale (Hook.) Brid.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Hymenophyllum malingii (Hook.) Mett.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Ileostylus micranthus (Hook.f.) Tiegh.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Menegazzia A.Massal.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Notogrammitis angustifolia subsp. nothofageti (Parris) Parris

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Radula physoloba Mont.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Dacrydium biforme (Hook.) Pilg.

Description

Shrub or tree up to 10 m., trunk up to 6 dm. diam., bark dark brown, wood pinkish. Lvs of juveniles and reversion shoots 1-2 cm. × 1·5-3 mm. or more, linear, acute, sts mucronate; petiole short, broad, twisted, midvein us. distinct; stomatal lines evident. Lvs of adults 2 mm. long, densely imbricate, appressed, obtuse, prominently keeled, rhomboid, margins hyaline. Final branchlets 3-4 mm. diam., sub-tetragonous. Male strobili solitary, terminal, c. 4 mm. long; apiculus triangular, obtuse, keeled. Carpidia solitary or paired, towards apices of branchlets, resembling scale lvs, but subpatent; ovules ovoid, compressed. Epimatium adnate to carpidium at base, coriac., surrounding pend. inverted ovule; integument membr. Seed 2-3 mm. long, about oblong in outline, compressed. Aril orange.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.