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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.

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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.

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New Zealand
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R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Rich. & A.Rich.
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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
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Callitris rhomboidea

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rhomboidea

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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.

Dense tree 3-10-(15) m high, but usually much smaller. Bark dark and smooth. Ultimate branchlets very slender; shoots obscured by decurrent lvs. Juvenile lvs < 10 mm long, green. Adult lvs scale-like, ovate, green, decurrent; keel prominent, rounded or obtuse; apex free, acute. ♂ strobili 1-1.5 mm long, broad-ellipsoid; scales with papery brown margins at maturity. Mature ♀ cones 1-6, 7-12 mm diam. before dehiscence, ± globose; peduncles stout. Scales 6, thick, broadly rhomboid, the outer ones c. 1/2 length of others and more tapering towards apex; boss in upper ⅓ of scale, short and broadly conic or rhomboid; apex mucronate. Central column short. Seeds many, dark brown. Cones persisting for several years after dehiscence and sometimes enlarging in that time.

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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.

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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
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Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. & A.Rich.
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North Auckland

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f082d0e8-6e40-4997-bb63-c40090c234cd
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 June 2003
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