Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Callitris oblonga subsp. corangensis
Common name
Pygmy cypress pine
Family
Cupressaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, shrubland, and stream banks. Eastern edge of the tablelands in the Corang River catchment, south of Nerriga and west of Lake Conjola.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 5 m high. Bark hard and compacted. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, dark green, usually 0.4–0.5 cm long, 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. Male cones single or in clusters of 2–5, oval, to 2 mm long. Female cones stalkless or on short fruiting branchlets occurring singly or in dense clusters on the branches and remaining after maturity. Mature female cones woody, oval, 14–18 mm long, 10–15 mm in diameter. Alternate cone scales about half as long as the intervening scales. Seeds numerous, dark brown; wings 2 or 3, about 2 mm wide.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. 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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10132 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitris~oblonga (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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