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Athrotaxis
D.Don 1841
Common NamesTasmanian cedar (2).Taxonomic notesA genus of two species and one hybrid, or (in this treatment) three species.DescriptionMonoecious evergreen trees with bark peeling off in thin, long strips. Branchlets spreading, thick, ultimate branchlets deciduous. Buds inconspicuous. Leaves homomorphic, scale-like and appressed or lanceolate and loosely disposed, uniform in shape and size, thick, with faint or prominent stomata. Male cones solitary, catkin-like, with imbricate spirally arranged aments, anthers 2-celled. Female cones woody, globose, maturing in one year, with many triangular scales; scales with a small recurved apical umbo or scales thing, papery and without umbos. Seeds 3-6 per scale, oblong, thin, with 2 narrow even wings. Cotyledons 2 (1).RangeThe temperate rain forests of Tasmania (2).Big TreeSee A. selaginoides.OldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarksSee also Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers.Citations(1) Silba 1986.(2) "Tasmanian cedar," Britannica Online. |
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