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|accepted_name=Callitris
|accepted_authority=Ventenat
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Dec. Gen. Nov.
|place=10. 1808
|year=1808
}}
|common_names=Cypress-pine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cupressaceae;Callitris
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cupressaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Callitris]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek callos, beautiful, and treis, three, referring to the beauty of the plants and the three-whorled leaves and cone scales
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees evergreen. <b>Branchlets</b> angled or furrowed-cylindrical, variously oriented. <b>Leaves</b> in whorls of 3–5. <b>Adult</b> leaves scalelike, appressed, abaxial surface keeled or rounded, free portion to 1 mm, abaxial glands absent. <b>Pollen</b> cones solitary or in small clusters, with 4–15 whorls of sporophylls, each with 2–4 pollen sacs. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 1–2 years, of 1–2 sizes, often remaining unopened for many years, ovoid or globose, 1–3.5 cm; scales persistent, in 2 equally inserted whorls of 3(–4), valvate, rhombic-deltate, basifixed, thick and woody. <b>Seeds</b> 2–9 per scale, round or 3-angled, broadly 1–3-winged; cotyledons 2.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Australia;and New Caledonia.
|discussion=<p>Species 16 (1 naturalized in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=blake1959a
|text=Blake, S. T. 1959. New or noteworthy plants, chiefly from Queensland, l. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland. 70(6): 33--46.
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|id=garden1957a
|text=Garden, J. 1957. A revision of the genus Callitris Vent. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb. 2(5): 363--392.
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|id=thompson1961a
|text=Thompson, J. 1961. Cupressaceae. Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb., Fl. Ser. 1/18: 46--55.
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|id=thompson1986a
|text=Thompson, J. and L. A. S. Johnson. 1986. Callitris glaucophylla, Australia's 'white cypress pine'---A new name for an old species. Telopea 2: 731--736.
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name=Callitris
|author=Richard P. Wunderlin
|authority=Ventenat
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cupressaceae
|distribution=North America;Australia;and New Caledonia.
|reference=blake1959a;garden1957a;thompson1961a;thompson1986a
|publication title=Dec. Gen. Nov.
|publication year=1808
|special status=
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|genus=Callitris
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