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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk

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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 10: 388 (1878)

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Kirk
Kirk
1878
388
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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
species
Dacrydium bidwillii
The species epithet commenorates John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853) and early collector of plants in New Zealand.
Type: New Zealand, South Island, Nelson, J. C. Bidwill 130 ( lectotype K, sheet 1, here designated).

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bidwillii

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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk

Spreading or erect shrub up to 3·5 m., trunk up to 4 dm. diam. Lvs of juveniles 5-10 × 1-1·5 mm., linear, rigid, patent, obtuse to subacute, midvein distinct below; of adults 1-2 mm. long, imbricate, appressed, obtuse to subacute, thick, coriac. Final branchlets 1-1·5 mm. diam., tetragonous. Male strobili solitary, terminal, c. 3-5 mm. long; apiculus obtuse. Carpidia solitary or paired, subterminal, rather larger than scale lvs. Epimatium adnate to base of carpidium, coriac., covering inverted, pend. ovule; integument free, membr. Seed 2-3 mm. long, subovoid, compressed. Aril white to yellowish.

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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk

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Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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typification
Type: New Zealand, South Island, Nelson, J. C. Bidwill 130 ( lectotype K, sheet 1, here designated).
Etymology
The species epithet commenorates John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853) and early collector of plants in New Zealand.

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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
22 April 2024
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