Common Names
Moore cypress-pine (Silba 1986).Taxonomic notes
Syn: Callitris acuminata (Parl.) F. Muell. 1882. Type: Between Moore and Murchison Rivers, Western Australia, 1863, J.Drurnmond 6, 225; holo: Fl. (Hill 1998).Description
A prostate plant or a small broadly conical shrub to 3 m. tall. Plant spreads by underground stolons. Branchlets finely divided, twisted into long branchlets. Juvenile leaves light silvery-green, 8-15 mm. long, needle-like, persistent. Adult leaves scalelike, in whorls of 3, up to 10 mm. long, dark green. Male cones ovoid, on a peduncle 4 mm. long, 4-6 mm long, 2-3 mm diameter, with 20 acuminate scales with a dorsal crest. Female cones yellowish-brown to glaucous-brown, ovoid-conical, distinctly longer than broad, acute, 20-35 mm long, 15-25 mm diameter, often subtended at the base by juvenile leaves to 1 cm. long; the 6 scales acute, erect, spreading when open, distinctly hooked at tip. Seeds variable, dark brown, 9-12 mm. long, 9-13 mm. wide, wing 2-5 mm. wide, hilium 3-5 mm. long and white. Cotyledons 2, light green, 15-18 mm. long by 3-3.5 mm. wide, apex bluntly acute, stem to 2 mm. thick (Silba 1986, Hill 1998).Range
Western Australia: "Endemic from Eneabba south to the Perth district, south-western WA.; locally frequent in low shrubland on sandplain." Cited collections (presumably wild plants) include 0.8 km S of Coorow-Green Head road on Brand Highway, and 1 mile along McNamara Road (Hill 1998).Big Tree
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Ethnobotany
Reported as having a medicinal use for rheumatism (Silba 1986).Observations
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See Also
Blackall, W.E. and B.J. Grieve. 1954. How to Know W. Austral. Wildflowers. 1: 6 (Illustrations).
Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.
Krussmann, G. 1985. Manual of Cultivated Conifers 2nd edition, 47, fig. 15 (Illustration).
Parlatore. 1863. Index Sem. Hort. Florent. 1862: 25.
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