Cupressus torulosa D. Don
Tree: evergreen; erect; 50 m maximum
height; monoecious. Trunk: 3.6 m maximum diameter. Bark: grey, or
brown; peeling off in strands. Crown: dense; widely conical (pyramidal).
Branches: ascending, or horizontal. Ultimate branchlets:
0.51.5 mm wide; 560 mm long; arranged in one plane; roundish or quadrangular in
cross-section.
Leaves: only adult leaves on adult plants;
scaly. Scale leaves: 12 mm long; 0.51 mm wide; arranged oppositely; bright
dark 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: 36 mm long; 1.52.5 mm
wide; solitary; 1216 male cone scales; 68 male cone scale whorls; globose, or
ovoid; yellow or bright brown. Male cone scales: arranged oppositely;
26 pollen sacs per male cone scale.
Female cones: 1320 mm long; 1020 mm
wide; 612 cone scales; ovoid, or globose; cone-like (open after maturity);
woody; not disintegrating after maturity; reddish, or dark; young cones green
with bluish coating, greenish, or reddish. 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 dorsal depression,
or with small dorsal umbo; umbo more or less in the centre. Columella:
absent.
Seeds: 35 mm long; 35 mm wide; 4880 seeds
per cone; red, bright dark brown, or black; 68 seeds per female cone scale; flattened;
not tubercled; with, or without conspicuous hilum. Seed
wings: 12 mm wide; 2 (almost) equal wings.
Supplement: maturity in the second
year; 23 cotyledones; 22 chromosomes (2n). Cultivation:
cultivated in