Distribution of Callitris monticola (Bowman and Harris 1995). Basemap from Expedia Maps. You can also create a highly detailed map, and access specimen data, using the "search" function at the Australia Virtual Herbarium.
Callitris monticola
Steelhead (Harden 1990).
Tree: Erect glaucous bushy shrub to 2.5 m tall. Leaves: Glaucous, 2-4 mm long. Cones: Solitary or several together, widely ovoid to depressed-globose, 15-25 mm in diameter, glaucous when young, often with greyish markings around edge of scales at maturity. Cone scales: Thick, each with a dorsal protuberance close to the apex, the alternate scales reduced in size; columella large and widely 3-lobed, often to 5 mm long (Harden 1990).
Australia: NSW & Qld. "Mostly found in granite areas, sometimes on sandstone; rare in N.S.W., from the Gibraltar Range N.P. to the Tenterfield district" (Harden 1990).
Garden, J. 1957. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb. 2(5):385.
Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.
Last Modified 2012-04-20
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