Distribution of Callitris monticola (Bowman and Harris 1995). Basemap from Expedia Maps. You can also create a highly detailed map, and access specimen data, using the "search" function at the Australia Virtual Herbarium.
Distribution of Callitris monticola (Bowman and Harris 1995). Basemap from Expedia Maps. You can also create a highly detailed map, and access specimen data, using the "search" function at the Australia Virtual Herbarium.
Callitris monticola
Steelhead (Harden 1990).
Tree: Erect glaucous bushy shrub to 2.5 m tall. Leaves: Glaucous, 2-4 mm long. Cones: Solitary or several together, widely ovoid to depressed-globose, 15-25 mm in diameter, glaucous when young, often with greyish markings around edge of scales at maturity. Cone scales: Thick, each with a dorsal protuberance close to the apex, the alternate scales reduced in size; columella large and widely 3-lobed, often to 5 mm long (Harden 1990).
Australia: New South Wales and Queensland. "Mostly found in granite areas, sometimes on sandstone; rare in N.S.W., from the Gibraltar Range N.P. to the Tenterfield district" (Harden 1990).
Zone 10 (cold hardiness limit between -1°C and +4.4°C) (Bannister and Neuner 2001).
No data as of 2023.03.03.
Garden, J. 1957. A revision of the genus Callitris. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 2(5):384-385.
Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.
Last Modified 2023-03-03
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