Pilgerodendron
Pilgerodendron uviferum
Pilgerodendron uviferum, sometimes referred to by the common name Chilean Incense Cedar, a plant belonging to the family of the cypress family is ( Cupressaceae ). It is the only species of the genus Pilgerodendron; the conifer is native to southern South America.
Description
Pilgerodendron uviferum grows as a small evergreen tree with a narrow, pyramidal tree crown. There are plant height of 1.5 to 10 meters, partly achieved even up to 18 meters. The trunk diameter can reach up to 35 centimeters. The bark of the trunk is dark brown and dissolves in long vertical strips from. The shoots are four rows occupied with scale-like leaves that are 2 to 4 mm long and 1.5 to 3 millimeters wide and run in a blunt tip.
The species is monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). Male and female cones are separated on different branches. Female pins 8 to 10 mm long and about 8 mm wide; they have 4-6 scales. Among the upper and middle scales sit 1 to 2 two-winged seeds. The seeds are inspired asymmetrical; the larger wing is approximately twice as large as the smaller ones.
There have been at an age of about 500 years found copies.
Distribution and location
The species is native to southern Chile and Argentina. Your deposits will to the north in Chile until about the 40th parallel, in Argentina it comes from the 41st to the 47th Latitude ago (Neuquén, Rio Negro, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego ). The deposits range in Chile far south, which Pilgerodendron uviferum probably the most southerly occurring conifers America, maybe even the whole world is.
It occurs in Drimys - Nothofagus betuloides - coastal forests, but also in the open state as the dominant tree species at altitudes from 0 to 150 meters. In the northern part of its range it is often associated with the Patagonian cypress ( Fitzroya cupressoides ).
The plant grows in very wet sites that never dry out and have an almost year-round continuous -resistant rainfall. The species is hardy to about -20 ° C, but does not tolerate dry and hot summer.
System
The description of the way by the British botanist David Don under the taxon Juniperus uvifera was published in 1828 in plant A description of the genus Pinus of Aylmer Bourke Lambert. The German botanist Robert Knud Friedrich pilgrims described the species under the taxon Libocedrus uvifera in an article published in 1926 in the work The natural plant families of Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl. Carl Rudolf Florin awarded 1930 still valid taxon Pilgerodendron uviferum and presented the way so separately in a separate genus.
Swell
- Pilgerodendron uviferum at the Gymnosperm Database (English)
- Short description of Pilgerodendron uviferum at www.chileflora.com