Callitris endlicheri
(Parl.) F.M.Bailey Mountain PineTree with spreading branches, to 15 m. Leaves green to grey-green, occasionally glaucous, outer side keeled (giving stem an angular appearance), nodes of green branchlets 1–4 mm long. Female cones solitary or several together on rather slender, usually clustered fruiting branchlets, ovoid to globose or subglobose, 1–2 cm in diameter when open, blackish, wrinkled or not wrinkled, persistent; scales thick, permanently adhering toward base, dorsal surface smooth, ridged or finely rugose, without tubercles, with small (sometimes recurved) dorsal point near apex; all scales more or less narrowed upwards; columella 3-lobed or with 3–4 separate parts, very short.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGU, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW. Scattered on granitic hills of northeastern Victoria, on dryish sandy slopes of Snowy River, and at Kooyoora State Park in north-west Victoria. A large stand near Yan Yean Reservoir may possibly be a natural population (Adams 1985). Naturalised in the White Elephant Range near Glenmore.
See note under Callitris oblonga.
Entwisle, T.J. (1994). Conifers (Pinophyta). In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 113–121. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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