Classification
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales Gorozh.
Family
Podocarpaceae Endl.
Genus
Halocarpus Quinn
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Halocarpus bidwillii (Kirk) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 317 (1982)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 10: 388 (1878)
  • = Dacrydium bidwillii var. erecta Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 57 (1889)
  • = Dacrydium bidwillii var. reclinata Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 57 (1889)
Vernacular Name(s):
Bog pine; Mountain pine
 Description

Spreading or erect shrub up to 3·5 m., trunk up to 4 dm. diam. Lvs of juveniles 5–10 × 1–1·5 mm., linear, rigid, patent, obtuse to subacute, midvein distinct below; of adults 1–2 mm. long, imbricate, appressed, obtuse to subacute, thick, coriac. Final branchlets 1–1·5 mm. diam., tetragonous. Male strobili solitary, terminal, c. 3–5 mm. long; apiculus obtuse. Carpidia solitary or paired, subterminal, rather larger than scale lvs. Epimatium adnate to base of carpidium, coriac., covering inverted, pend. ovule; integument free, membr. Seed 2–3 mm. long, subovoid, compressed. Aril white to yellowish.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Dacrydium bidwillii Kirk]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Kirk, T. 1878: A revised arrangement of the New Zealand species of Dacrydium, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 10: 383–391.
Kirk, T. 1889: The forest flora of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.
Quinn, C.J. 1982: Taxonomy of Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb. emend. de Laub. (Podocarpaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 30: 311–320.