Halocarpus kirkii (F.Muell. ex Parl.) Quinn

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Name scientific

Halocarpus kirkii (F.Muell. ex Parl.) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 318 (1982)

Preferred name

Halocarpus kirkii (F.Muell. ex Parl.) 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 kirkii (F.Muell. ex Parl.) Quinn 1982

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(F.Muell. ex Parl.) Quinn

Original authors

Parl.

Combination authors

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

Dacrydium kirkii F.Muell. ex Parl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Halocarpus kirkii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Podocarpaceae

Genus

Halocarpus

Species

kirkii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Monoao

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Dacrydium kirkii F.Muell. ex Parl.

Descriptions

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

Dacrydium kirkii F.Muell. ex Parl.

Description

Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark greyish brown, wood pale brownish red. Lvs of juveniles and reversion shoots 1·5-4 cm. × 1-3 mm., patent, linear, obtuse to acute to mucronate; petiole short, twisted; of adults 2-3 mm. long, obtuse, ovate-oblong to rhomboid, coriac., margin hyaline. Final branchlets 1-2 mm. diam., subterete. Male strobili solitary, terminal, sessile up to 1 cm. long; apiculus obtusely triangular. Carpidia 3-5, clustered at tips of branchlets, larger than lvs with solitary ovules. Seeds ovoid-oblong somewhat compressed, striate, 3-8 mm. long. Epimatium completely covering seed, which is pend. from the summit and free. Aril orange.

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