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Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States
Hardin, Massey, Radford, Thieret, eds.

Copyright - James W. Hardin, Ph. D., 1998, 1999. All Rights Reserved.


4. CALLITRISVent. CYPRESS-PINE


1. C. glaucophylla J. Thompson & L. P. Thompson WHITE C. Symmetrical, monoecious shrubs or small trees to 25 m tall; bark furrowed, fibrous; branches short and erect; branchlets jointed, very slender, spreading, and mostly angled. Juvenile leaves narrow, lanceolate, in whorls of 4, mature leaves scale-like, in whorls of 3, 1-3 mm long, green or bluish green, usually glaucous, the rounded decurrent portion long, the short triangular apex free but appressed and imbricate on the base of the upper whorl. Pollen cones ovoid, small, clustered. Seed cones on thickened stalk, solitary or few in a cluster, woody, ovoid to globose, ca. 1 cm in diam., persisting several years after seed dispersal; scale-bracts more or less peltate and valvate, whorled, 3 wide and 3 narrow, separating nearly to the base, central columella thick and triangular; seeds winged. Spring. Native of Australia; cultivated in central and s Fla and locally naturalized. This has been treated as C. columellaris F. Muellerby some authors.