- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Dacrydium colensoi Hook., Icon. Pl. 6, t.548 (1843)
- ≡ Lagarostrobos colensoi (Hook.) Quinn, Austral. J. Bot. 30: 317 (1982)
- = Dacrydium westlandicum Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. t. 1218 (1877)
Tree up to 15m., trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark brownish grey. Lvs of juveniles 6–12 mm. long, narrow-linear-subulate, subterete, decurrent; of semi-juveniles (sts flowering and fruiting in this stage) 3–4·5 mm. long, narrow-lanceolate, acute, subfalcate, flattish, subdistichous; of adults 1–2.5 mm. long, rhomboid, obtuse to subacute, coriac., keeled, imbricate, appressed. Ultimate branchlets c. 1·5 mm. diam. Male strobili solitary, terminal, 3–5 mm. long or more, c. 1·5 mm. wide; apiculus short, triangular, acute. Ovules solitary or paired, terminal, final scale lvs thin, rather lax, spreading; epimatium transversely keeled, about ?-1/2 length of seed, which is 2–4 mm. long, broadly ovoid-oblong, black.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Dacrydium colensoi Hook.]