Cupressaceae

Subfamily Callitroideae

• Callitris glaucophylla
• Callitris intratropica
• Callitris rhomboidea
• Pilgerodendron uviferum
• Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
• Widdringtonia nodiflora

Subfamily Cupressoideae

• Chamaecyparis thyoides
• Cupressus goveniana var. pigmaea
• Cupressus lusitanica

Subfamily Sequoioideae

• Sequoia sempervirens

Subfamily Taxodioideae

• Glyptostrobus pensilis

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• Family: Cupressaceae Bartling

• Country of Origin: Chile & Argentina
• Habitat: evergreen coastal lowland forests

• Description: Pilgerodendron is a slow-growing, narrowly conical evergreen tree which grows from 2-20 m in height, with scale-like leaves arranged in decussate pairs. The leaves are all equal in size, giving the shoots a square cross-section (unlike the other Libocedrus species, where pairs of larger leaves alternate with pairs of smaller leaves, giving a somewhat flattened shoot). The cones are 5-10 mm long, with four scales, two sterile basal scales and two fertile scales; each scale has a slender spine-like bract, and each fertile scale has two winged seeds 3-4 mm long.