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Halocarpus bidwillii
(Hook. f. ex T. Kirk) C.J. Quinn 1982
Common NamesBog pine, tarwood (3).Taxonomic notesSyn: Dacrydium bidwillii Hooker f. ex T. Kirk 1878 (2). Possible natural hybrids, H. bidwillii × H. biforme and H. bidwillii × Lepidothamnus laxifolius have been brought into cultivation in New Zealand (3).Description"An erect or prostrate, densely branched shrub [0.6-3 m] high, the lower branches sometimes rooting and forming plants up to [6 m] across. Leaves very variable, those of young plants and of the lower branches of old plants, spreading, crowded, linear, stalkless, [6-10 mm] long; the leaves of upper branches, particularly of old specimens, small, scale-like, triangular, blunt, leathery, [1-2 mm] long. Male strobili solitary, [2.5-3 mm] long. Seeds one or two, striate, compressed, blunt, about [2.5 mm] long, with a fleshy white aril" (3).RangeNew Zealand, chiefly in the subalpine zones of the South Island and Stewart Island (3).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyNew Zealand, chiefly in the subalpine zones of the South Island and Stewart Island (3).ObservationsRemarksSee also: Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers .Citations(1) Silba 1986 .(2) Quinn 1982 . (3) Dallimore & Jackson 1967 .
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