LON-CAPA Diselma archeri description

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Foliage on an ornamental specimen [C.J. Earle, May-1999].

Distribution map (3). The side of each square measures 10 km. A blue square indicates arboretum collections; a green square denotes a written record.

Diselma archeri Hooker fil.

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

The sole species in Diselma Hooker 1857. Syn: Fitzroya archeri Bentham & Hooker (1).

Description

A dioecious shrub or small tree, 1-5-6 m tall, variously of compact or straggling habit, branchlets divided into fine sprays. Leaves scale-like, closely pressed and overlapping, alternately opposite or sometimes whorled, blunt at the apex. Male cones terminal, oblong, with the stamens in 3 or 4 pairs. Female cones terminal, solitary, small, globose, 5 mm across, composed of two pairs of scales, the upper pair fertile, with 2 seeds. Seeds small, with 2-3 wings. Chromosomes n = 11 (1, 2).

Range

Tasmania: the western coast ranges and Lake St. Clair, at elevations of 910-1220 m (2).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Vidakovic 1991.
(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.
(3) M.J. Brown, J.B. Kirkpatrick & A. Moscal. 1983. An atlas of Tasmania's endemic flora. Tasmania Conservation Trust, 102, Bathurst Street, Hobart 7000, Tasmania. 110pp. ISBN 0959981683

See also: Baker and Smith. 1910. Pines of Australia, p. 299.

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Last modified on 10-Jul-1999