 | Cupressus goveniana var. pigmaea Lemmon 1895Common NamesMendocino or pigmy cypress (2).Taxonomic notesSyn: C. pygmaea (Lemmon) Sargent (2).DescriptionRangeUSA: California: Mendocino County: two coastal area near Fort Bragg and Mendocino City. Habitat is the Mendocino White Plains, a white sandy soil over a hard clay. Some plants are dwarf, flowering when less than 1 m tall, but others on more moist substrates attain remarkable size (see Big Tree) (4).Big TreeHeight 43 m, dbh 213 cm, crown spread 12 m, in Mendocino County, CA (1).OldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarks"The pygmy forests of this species and Pinus contorta on the shallow hardpan soils of coastal terraces of the Mendocino white plains are a remarkable example of phenotypic plasticity" (3).Citations(1) American Forests 1996.(2) Peattie 1950 (as C. pygmaea). (3) James E. Eckenwalder at the Flora of North America web site. (4) Little 1970. |
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