- Taxon
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- ≡ Dacrydium laxifolium Hook.f., J. Bot. 4: 143
Prostrate to sublianoid shrub with branches c. 2–5 mm. diam. towards base, up to 1 m. long or more; branchlets ∞, very slender, flexuous. Lvs polymorphic; of juveniles 5–12 mm. long, subulate to narrow-linear, acute, flat, often curved; later lvs lessening to 2–3 mm. long (often flowering and fruiting in this stage); fully adult lvs 1–2 mm. long, appressed, imbricating, oblong-ovate, obtuse, keeled; branchlets often showing admixture of lf-forms. Plants often monoec.; male strobili solitary, terminal, sessile, up to 8 mm. long; apiculus broadly triangular, acute. Ovule solitary, terminal; receptacle swollen, crimson, succulent, rarely dry; seed 3–5 mm. long, nutlike, oblong-cylindrical, obtuse, with stout, curved apiculus, far exserted beyond epimatium. Aril red.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Dacrydium laxifolium Hook.f.]