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