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Cupressus duclouxiana Hickel

Common Names

Chinese cypress (1).

Taxonomic notes

Syn: C. sempervirens Franchet non Linnaeus (2).

Description

"Tree up to 25 m high. Branches slender and horizontal. Shoots spreading in all directions, not in a single plane, very slender (less than 1 mm in diameter). Leaves very small, 1 mm long, bluish-green, indistinctly glandular. Cones globose, 2-2.5 cm across, usually composed of 8 scales, rather flat. Seed 3.5 mm long, reddish-brown. Cotyledons 2" (1).

Differs from its close relative C. sempervirens, "in its slenderer branchlets (about [0.6-0.9 mm] diameter), with very small, bright or bluish-green, obscurely glandular leaves about [1.25 mm] long" (2).

Range

China: 1000-2000 m in mountains of W Yunnan, Sichuan & Gansu (1).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

A popular European ornamental (1).

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Vidakovic 1991. (2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.

See also Silba 1986.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/cu/cup/duclouxiana.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 19-Dec-98

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