Lepidothamnus fonkii

Philippi 1860

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Taxonomic notes

Syn: Dacrydium fonkii (Phil.) Bentham 1880 (Quinn 1982). See Dacrydium for details.

Description

A densely branched, usually prostrate shrub up to 60 cm tall, with short, slender erect branchlets up to 5 mm in diameter. Leaves scale-like, triangular-ovate, obtuse, closely pressed, keeled on the back, apex blunt and incurved, 4-5 × 3-4 mm. Male cones ca. 6 × 2 mm, the scales ca. 1 mm, subtended by basal bracts, terminal on branches. Seeds at the apex of branchlets, ovoid, 3-4 × ca. 2 mm. Flowers November to February (Dallimore et al. 1967, Moore 1983).

Range

Chile: Tierra del Fuego N to 40° S in magellanic moorland and bogs at 2-20 m elevation (Moore 1983). The IUCN reports that this taxon is "vulnerable" to extinction in the wild in the medium-term future, due to a limited range that is severely fragmented and undergoing continuing decline in extent and/or quality of habitat.

Big tree

Oldest

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