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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco, Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 2 24: 74 (1950)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

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New Zealand
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(Mirb.) Franco
Mirb.
Franco
1950
74
ICN
species
Pseudotsuga menziesii

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menziesii

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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

Large or very large tree; branches ± horizontal; branchlets tending to droop. Bark thick, reddish brown beneath. Shoots light to dark brown, with short hairs, ridged. Winter resting buds to 1 cm long, shining purplish brown, long, narrow and sharply acute. Lvs 1.5-3.8 cm × 1-2 mm, often revolute, glaucous-banded below, orange-scented when crushed, 2-ranked on juvenile and other vegetative shoots in deep shade; apex obtuse. ♂ cones 1.2-2 cm long. Mature ♀ cones (4)-5-10 cm long, cylindric-ovoid. Bract scale with exserted part pointed towards cone apex; central lobe longer, 5-15 mm long, subacute; ovuliferous scales much wider than long, entire. Seed mottled brown beneath.

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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

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New Zealand
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Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
26 June 2022
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