Libocedrus papuana
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Description
Trees 2-50 m tall, rarely shrubby, pyramidal or spreading or even slightly pendulous with age.
Leaves on older and more exposed trees becoming quite small, facial scales rhomboidal, acute, up to half as long as the lateral scales, c. 1 mm long, the lateral scales nearly straight, their base between the outermost edges of the next lower facial scales, spreading slightly and then straight or weakly convex, tips extending slightly beyond the outermost edges of the next higher facial scales and either straight or slightly spreading or (when convex) slightly incurved and ± touching the base of the next lateral leaves but below the tips of the next facial leaves, down to c. 2 mm long.
Seed 2-3 mm long, the wing twice as long and spreading upward with a bend partway along the outer edge towards the straight inner edge forming an acutish rounded apex.
Citation
WARB. 1900 – In: Monsunia: 189
LANE-POOLE 1925: For. Res. Terr. Papua New Guinea: 74
K.SCH. & LAUT. 1901: Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 156
1905: 51
LAUT. 1913: p. 52. – In: Bot. Jahrb.: f. 2A-G
Koord. 1911 – In: Nova Guinea: 613
FLORIN & BOUTELJE 1954: p. 31. – In: Acta Horti Berg.: pl. 2, t. 4-6
VAN ROYEN 1979: p. 2. – In: Alp. Fl. New Guinea: f. 33
SILBA 1986 – In: Phytologia Mem.: 109
HARRISON 1966 – In: Dallimore & Jackson, Handb. Conif., ed. 4: 323
FLORIN & BOUTELJE 1954: p. 32. – In: Acta Horti Berg.: pl. 2, t. 1-3
HARRISON 1966 – In: Dallimore & Jackson, Handb. Conif., ed. 4: 323