Cupressus goveniana Gordon var. abramsiana (C.
B. Wolf) Little
Tree: evergreen; erect; 18 m maximum
height; monoecious. Trunk: 0.5 m maximum diameter. Bark: grey, or
brown; furrowed. Crown: dense; widely conical (pyramidal). Branches:
ascending, or horizontal. Ultimate branchlets:
1.1–1.5 mm wide; 10.1–15 mm long; arranged 3-dimensionally; roundish or
quadrangular in cross-section.
Leaves: only adult leaves on adult plants;
scaly. Scale leaves: 1–2 mm long; 1–1.7 mm wide; arranged oppositely;
bright green; closely appressed; only one type of
leaves (no differentiation in lateral and facial leaves = monomorphic); tip
blunt, or acute; with inconspicuous or without glands; without white resin;
dorsal side rounded; tip curved inwards.
Male cones: 3–4 mm long; 1.5–2 mm
wide; solitary, or several together; 10–16 male cone scales; 5–8 male cone
scale whorls; oblong; yellow or bright brown. Male cone scales: arranged
oppositely; 1–6 pollen sacs per male cone scale.
Female cones: 20–30 mm long; 10–20 mm
wide; 8–10 cone scales; ovoid, or 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 or large dorsal umbo; umbo more or less in
the centre. Columella: absent.
Seeds: 3–5 mm long; 3–6 mm wide; 60–120 seeds
per cone; dark brown – black; 10–12 seeds per female cone scale; flattened; not
tubercled, or tubercled;
with conspicuous hilum. Seed wings: 0–1 mm wide; 2 (almost) equal wings.
Supplement: maturity in the second
year; 3–5 cotyledones; 22 chromosomes (2n). Cultivation:
not cultivated in