Distribution of Callitris baileyi (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 baileyi (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.
Conservation Status
Callitris baileyi
Bailey's cypress-pine.
This species is sister to C. drummondii, with a latter Miocene date for the most recent common ancestor. That clade is sister to the 3 species formerly assigned to Actinostrobus, with a most recent common ancestor dating to the early Oligocene origins of Callitris itself (Larter et al. 2017).
Tree: Slender. Leaves: Green, 25 mm long, acutely keeled on dorsal surfaces. Cones: Solitary on slender fruiting branchlets, glaucous during development; 10-13 mm in diameter, ovoid to oblong. Cone scales: Each with a dorsal point below the apex and a furrow below following dehiscence; alternate scales shorter and narrower; columella stout, narrowed at the base, slightly angled. Seeds: Few, with 2 unequal wings (Harden 1990).
Australia: New South Wales and Queensland. "Grows in drier ranges inland from near the Qld border; not common in N.S.W." (Harden 1990).
Zone 10 (cold hardiness limit between -1°C and +4.4°C) (Bannister and Neuner 2001).
No data as of 2026-01-27.
No data as of 2026-01-27.
No data as of 2026-01-27.
"The species is dedicated to the late Frederick Manson Bailey, the first to collect specimens of this tree, whose name is so closely associated with the flora of Queensland and its elucidation" (White 1923).
Bowman, D. M. J. S. and Stephen Harris. 1995. Conifers of Australia's dry forests and open woodland. Pp. 252-270 in Enright, Neal J. and Robert S. Hill (eds.) Ecology of the southern conifers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian. 342pp.
Larter, Maximilian, Sebastian Pfautsch, Jean-Christophe Domec, Santiago Trueba, Nathalie Nagalingum, and Sylvain Delzon. 2017. Aridity drove the evolution of extreme embolism resistance and the radiation of conifer genus Callitris. New Phytologist 215(1):97–112. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14545.
White, C. T. 1923. A new conifer from southern Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68:449. Available: Biodiversity Heritage Library, accessed 2012.11.24.
Farjon (2005) provides a detailed account, with illustrations.
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