 | Lepidothamnus intermedius (T. Kirk) C.J. Quinn 1982Common NamesYellow silver pine (1), mountain pine (3).Taxonomic notesSyn: Dacrydium intermedium T. Kirk 1878 (2). See Dacrydium for details.Description"A small tree [6-14 m] high, with a trunk [diameter of 30-60 cm] and spreading branches. Leaves on young plants narrow-linear, [8-15 mm] long, acute and curved, becoming closer set and shorter on older plants, passing gradually into those of mature trees which are densely crowded, overlapping, blunt, keeled, leathery, [1.7-3 mm] long. Male strobili abundantly produced, about [6 mm] long, with numerous anthers. Seed oblong, blunt or with a minute point, [3-5 mm] long" (3).RangeNew Zealand (1): "widely distributed ... being not uncommon in mountain forests in the North and South Islands and on the western side of Stewart Island" (3).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotany"The reddish-yellow wood is highly resinous and very inflammable, but very strong and durable. It is employed for railway sleepers, boat-building, and for telegraph poles" (3).ObservationsRemarksSee also Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand conifers.Citations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Quinn 1982. (3) Dallimore & Jackson 1967 (as Dacrydium intermedium). See also: Kirk. For. Flora of N. Z., 167, t. 86. |
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