Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Callitris endlicheri
Common name
Black cypress pine, Mountain pine; Red Cypress pine
Family
Cupressaceae
Where found
Woodland and heath on rocky hills and ridges. Ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and the Western Slopes. Occsionally in Sydney.
Notes
Tree to 15 m tall. Bark tough and often deeply furrowed. Branches spreading. Branchlets green, sometimes glaucous. Leaves 0.1–0.4 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, scale-like, keeled on the back, the bases appressed to the branchlets, giving the stem an angular appearance. Male and female cones on the same tree. Mature cones with a sharp projecting point on each segment. Cones single or several together on rather slender, usually clustered, branchlets. Male cones 1-2 mm in diameter. Mature female cones woody, 10–20 mm in diameter, cone scales smooth, ridged, or finely wrinkled. All cone scales about the same. Seeds numerous, dark brown; wings 2 or 3, to 3 mm wide.
Endangered population on the Woronora Plateau in the local government area of Wollongong. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10937 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitris~endlicheri (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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