Prumnopitys ladei

(F.M. Bailey) de Laubenfels 1978

Common names

Mount Spurgeon black pine or Mount Spurgeon brown pine.

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Podocarpus ladei F.M. Bailey 1905 (Hill 1998); see also de Laubenfels (1978). The type specimen was collected by F.W.H. Lade from Mt. Spurgeon, Mitchell River, Queensland, December 1902.

Description

Trees to 25 m tall. Bark smooth, red-brown, shed in thin scales. Leaves sessile, spirally arranged but secondarily distichous, oblong, 12-16×2.5-4 mm, obtuse, with stomata on both surfaces. Female cone a single scale subtending a seed, not expanding at maturity. Seeds ellipsoidal, to 25 mm long and 15 mm in diameter, purple-black when mature, pruinose (Hill 1998).

Range

Australia: Queensland: Atherton Tableland. Known only from rainforests of Mt. Spurgeon and Mt. Lewis, where it grows in granite-derived soils at 1000-1200 m elevation (Hill 1998). The location is in a state forest reserve. Conservation status is classified as "lower risk - conservation dependent" (Conifer Specialist Group 1998).

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Citations

Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Prumnopitys ladei. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. www.iucnredlist.org, accessed 2009.11.09.

See also

Bailey, F.M. 1905. Podocarpus ladei. Queensland Agricultural Journal 15:899.