Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg.

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Name scientific

Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg., Silva (Sargent) 10, 134 (1896)

Preferred name

Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg.

Taxonomy reference

Farjon, A. 2017: A Handbook of the World's Conifers. Edition 2. Btill, Leiden.

Linked name

Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(D.Don) Sarg.

Original authors

D.Don

Combination authors

Sarg.

Publication place

Sargent, C.S. 1896: The silva of North America a description of the trees which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston and New York.

Year published

1896

Publication page

134

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dacrydium plumosum D.Don

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Libocedrus plumosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Cupressaceae

Genus

Libocedrus

Species

plumosa

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg.

Description

Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 12 dm. diam., bark falling in narrow thin strips. Branchlets distichous, of juveniles flattened, up to 7 mm. broad; of adults less compressed up to 3 mm. broad. Lvs quadrifarious; lateral up to 5 mm. long, connate, sheathing, spreading; dorsal and ventral up to 2.5 mm. long, triangular, subappressed. Male strobili 5-8 mm. long, linear; sporophylls 8-12, apiculus thin, ovate, subpeltate. Female cones ovoid 1-1·5 cm. long of 4 carpidia with projecting dorsal curved mucro. Seeds 2.

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