Dacrydium colensoi Hook.
Details
Dacrydium colensoi Hook., Icon. Pl. 6, t.548 (1843)
Nomenclature
Hook.
Hook.
1843
t.548
ICN
Dacrydium colensoi Hook.
species
Dacrydium colensoi
Type: New Zealand: North Island, ["High hills near the eastern coast...], W. Colenso 27 (lectpotype BM).
Classification
Descriptions
Dacrydium colensoi Hook.
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Dacrydium colensoi Hook.
Dacrydium colensoi Hook.
Collections
Notes
typification
Type: New Zealand: North Island, ["High hills near the eastern coast...], W. Colenso 27 (lectpotype BM).
typification
Type collection: "High hills near the eastern coast of hte Northern Island of New Zealand". W. Colenso 27, 1841.
Lectotype (here chosen): BM! Isolectotype: (fragments in a mounted packet) B!
Metadata
8d31f35d-e4c2-404e-835e-044aaf09ff13
scientific name
Names_Plants
13 March 2002
23 April 2024