Distribution of Callitris oblonga (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 oblonga
Pigmy cypress-pine, dwarf cypress-pine, river-pine, Tasmanian cypress-pine (Farjon 2005).
Syn: C. fructicosa, C. gunni (Silba 1986).
Small tree, leaves usually 4-5 mm long, cones solitary or in dense clusters on the branches; sessile or on short fruiting branchlets, remaining after maturity; ovoid, 12-15 mm in diameter × 15-20 mm long. Cone scales thick, tapering above to an apex usually thickened by a short dorsal point, the alternate scales very much reduced; columella short, often 3-lobed (Harden 1990).
Australia: NSW & Tasmania. "Usually grows in sand near banks of streams; scattered along the escarpment, rare in N.S.W." (Harden 1990).
This species is currently listed on the index of threatened Australian plant species.
Anon. 1996. South Esk Pine success. [reports on a project to re-establish the nationally vulnerable tree on a private property on the east coast of Tasmania] Threatened Species Network (Tasmania) Bulletin no. 8:2.
Askey-Doran, M.J. 1994. Callitris spp. aff. oblonga Apsley River Community Recovery Plan. Project No. 376 ; Endangered Species Program (Australia), Wildlife Report (Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, 94/5). Hobart: Tasmania Department of Environment and Land Management.
Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.
Harris, S. and J.B. Kirkpatrick. 1991. The distribution, dynamics and ecological differentiation of Callitris species in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Botany 39(3):187-202.
Kirkpatrick, J.B., M.J. Brown and A. Moscal. 1980. Callitris oblonga. P.20-21 in J.B. Kirkpatrick, M.J. Brown and A. Moscal, Threatened Plants of the Tasmanian Central East Coast. Hobart: Tasmanian Conservation Trust.
Nadolny, C. and J. Benson. 1993. The Biology and Management of the Pigmy Cypress Pine (Callitris oblonga) in New South Wales. Species Management Report No. 7. Sydney: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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