Dacrydium elatum

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Description

Large tree, 8-40 m high, 0.1-1 m diam., with many slender, more or less erect branches and crowds of branchlets forming tufts which together construct a great billowy dome. The solitary seed is 4-4.5 mm long.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present, Sarawak present); Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Batak Lands present, Penang I present, Westcoast Res present

Indochina and Thailand; in Malesia: Malaya (very common, incl. Penang I.), Sumatra (only local in Westcoast Res., Batak Lands), Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, rather rare). .

Notes

Dacrydium beccarii var. subelatum was established for trees bearing the intermediate foliage, a condition which appears to be persistent on certain individuals, some of them growing on high mossy ridges. Actually fruiting specimens with intermediate foliage occur sporadically throughout the range of D. elatum (). CORNER thought that this variety was somehow transitional, even suggesting that D. beccarii — of which he made it a part — might be a hybrid between D. comosum and D. elatum. Indeed, the individuals on high mossy ridges may well be hybrids between D. beccarii and D. elatum as they seem always to occur where the ranges of these two species approach one another. In any case, all such plants can be distinguished by much shorter leaves on vigorous shoots than for D. beccarii and generally variable leaf size.

Citation

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 1075

KENG 1972: p. 46. – In: Whitmore, Tree Fl. Mal. 1. f. Id

HICKEL 1931: p. 1070. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C. f. 123, 2-4

KENG 1972: p. 46. – In: Whitmore, Tree Fl. Mal. 1. f. lc.

DE LAUB. 1969 – In: J. Arn. Arb. p 303

DE LAUB. 1969 – In: J. Arn. Arb. p 285

DE BOER 1866: Conif. Arch. Ind. p 29

GAUSSEN 1974: p. 48. – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss. f. 692, t. 86

PILGER 1903 – In: Pfl. R. p 51

Corner 1939: p. 240. – In: Gard. Bull. S. S. t. 5

GAUSSEN 1974: p. 46. – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss. f. 691, t. 87

HOOK. 1925: p. 279. – In: Fl. Mal. Pen. f. 227

BURKILL & HOLTTUM 1923 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S. p 75

PHENGKLAI 1973: p. 9. – In: Thai For. Bull. f. 5

PARL. 1868 – In: DC., Prod. 16. p 494

HENKEL & HOCHSTETTER 1865: Synop. Nadelhölz. p 406

Hook.f. 1896 – In: Fl. Br. India. p 648

ENDL. 1847: Syn. Conif. p 226

RIDLEY 1911 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. p 55

HOOK. 1940: Wayside Trees: 721. t. 223-224

RENDLE 1896 – In: J. Bot. p 355