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

• Query IPNI
• Common Name: White cypress pine
• Family: Cupressaceae Bartling

• Country of Origin: Australia
• Habitat: widespread, mostly on sandy soils

• Description: Shrubs or trees to 30 m high, with a single trunk. Bark brown, rough and furrowed. Leaves in whorls of 3 (sometimes 4 or 5 when juvenile), usually glaucous (bluish grey), juvenile leaves 7-8 mm, mature leaves 1-3 mm long with apex broadly acute, dorsal surface not keeled. Pollen cones cylindric-oblong, 5-10 ⨰ 2-5 mm. Seed cones solitary, rarely remaining on the plant long after maturity; depressed-globose to ovoid, 1.2-2.5 cm diam., dark brown; peduncle 7-8 mm; scales thin, often with a very small dorsal point, indistinctly dentate along margin, separating almost to base when mature, alternate scales short and narrow, larger ones angled into a wide sharp apex, spreading widely at maturity, columella usually slender and <5 mm long, occasionally to 7 mm long, sometimes thick and angled. Seeds 4-5 mm, chestnut brown