Cupressus bakeri Jeps.
Tree: evergreen; erect; 30.5 m maximum
height; monoecious. Trunk: 1 m maximum diameter. Bark: grey, or
red; divided in plates, or smooth – scaly. Crown: rather open; columnar
to narrowly or widely conical (pyramidal). Branches: ascending,
horizontal, or drooping. Ultimate branchlets:
0.5–1.3 mm wide; 5–20 mm long; arranged 3-dimensionally; quadrangular in
cross-section.
Leaves: only adult leaves on adult plants;
scaly. Scale leaves: 1–2.4 mm long; 0.4–1.3 mm wide; arranged
oppositely; bright green, or green with coating (somewhat bluish); closely appressed; only one type of leaves (no differentiation in
lateral and facial leaves = monomorphic); tip acute; with conspicuous glands;
with, or without white resin; dorsal side keeled; tip curved inwards.
Male cones: 2–3 mm long; 2–2.5 mm
wide; solitary; 8–12 male cone scales; 4–6 male cone scale whorls; oblong;
yellow or bright brown. Male cone scales: arranged oppositely; 3–5
pollen sacs per male cone scale.
Female cones: 10–20 mm long; 10–20 mm
wide; 4–8 cone scales; globose; cone-like (open after maturity); woody; not
disintegrating after maturity; bright, or dark; young cones greenish. Female
cone scales: arranged oppositely; inserted on different levels in mature
cones; without several small additional cone scales on the female cone; tip
blunt; with small dorsal umbo; umbo more or less in the centre. Columella:
absent.
Seeds: 3–4.5 mm long; 2–4 mm wide; 40–85 seeds
per cone; bright – middle brown; 6–20 seeds per female cone scale; flattened;
not tubercled; with, or without conspicuous hilum. Seed
wings: 0.8–1.2 mm wide; 2 (almost) equal wings.
Supplement: maturity in the second
year; 3–4 cotyledones; 22 chromosomes (2n). Cultivation:
cultivated in