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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Cupressaceae
Callitris verrucosa

Citation: F.Muell., Rept Burdek. Exped. 19 (1860).

Synonymy: Frenela verrucosa Cunn. ex Endl., Syn. Conif. 37 (1847); F. robusta Cunn. ex Mirb. var. verrucosa (Cunn. ex Endl.)Benth., Fl. Aust 6:237 (1873); C. preissii Miq. Subsp. verrucosa (Cunn. ex Endl.)J. Garden, Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 2:375 (1956).

Common name: Mallee cypress-pine, scrub cypress-pine, mallee pine.

Description:
Shrub or small tree, single or multi-stemmed, to 5 m high; leaves lime- or dark-green, abaxial surface rounded. Peduncle 0.2-1 cm wide, 0.1-1.6 cm long.

Cones single or in groups of 2 or more, subglobose, 1.2-3 cm wide, 1.1-2.9 cm long, dorsal surface rugose, densely tuberculate; dorsal point inconspicuous; columella simple.

image of FSA1_Callitris_ver1.jpg
Image source: fig. 53 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Callitris_ver2.jpg
Image source: fig. 53 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Callitris_ver.jpg Cone of Callitris verrucosa
Image source: pl. 2 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 143.

Distribution:  Found in mallee open scrub; favours deep soils, particularly sand dunes.

S.Aust.: NW, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: spring — summer.


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Biology: C. verrucosa intergrades with the more tuberculate cone forms of C. preissii making identification difficult in some instances.

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