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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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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="shrub duration;tree duration"><b>Shrubs </b>or trees evergreen.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="branchlet shape;branchlet shape;branchlet orientation"><b>Branchlets </b>angled or furrowed-cylindrical, variously oriented.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>in whorls of 3–5.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf life cycle;leaf shape;leaf fixation or orientation;abaxial surface shape;abaxial surface shape;portion fusion;portion some measurement;abaxial gland count"><b>Adult </b>leaves scalelike, appressed, abaxial surface keeled or rounded, free portion to 1 mm, abaxial glands absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="pollen cone architecture or arrangement or growth form;pollen cone architecture or arrangement or growth form;whorl count;pollen-sac count"><b>Pollen </b>cones solitary or in small clusters, with 4–15 whorls of sporophylls, each with 2–4 pollen-sacs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="seed-cone life cycle;seed-cone architecture;seed-cone shape;seed-cone shape;seed-cone distance;year count;year count"><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;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="scale duration;scale arrangement or dehiscence;scale shape;scale fixation;scale width;scale texture;whorl count;whorl position">scales persistent, in 2 equally inserted whorls of 3 (–4), valvate, rhombic-deltate, basifixed, thick and woody.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="seed count;seed shape;seed shape;seed architecture"><b>Seeds </b>2–9 per scale, round or 3-angled, broadly 1–3-winged;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="cotyledon count">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.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|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=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/287ef3db526bd807d435a3c7423ef2df1e951227/V2/V2_85.xml
|genus=Callitris
|abaxial gland count=absent
|abaxial surface shape=rounded;keeled
|branchlet orientation=oriented
|branchlet shape=furrowed-cylindrical;angled
|cotyledon count=2
|leaf fixation or orientation=appressed
|leaf life cycle=adult
|leaf shape=scalelike
|pollen cone architecture or arrangement or growth form=in small clusters;solitary
|pollen-sac count=2;4
|portion fusion=free
|portion some measurement=0mm;1mm
|scale arrangement or dehiscence=valvate
|scale duration=persistent
|scale fixation=basifixed
|scale shape=rhombic-deltate
|scale texture=woody
|scale width=thick
|seed architecture=1-3-winged
|seed count=2;9
|seed shape=3-angled;round
|seed-cone architecture=unopened
|seed-cone distance=1cm;3.5cm
|seed-cone life cycle=maturing
|seed-cone shape=globose;ovoid
|shrub duration=evergreen
|tree duration=evergreen
|whorl count=2;4;15
|whorl position=inserted
|year count=many;1;2
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