Mature cones and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Calperum near Renmark, SA

Immature cones and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Cobar and Mt Hope, NSW

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Calperum near Renmark, SA

Common Name

Murray Cypress Pine

Family

Cupressaceae

Notes

Tree to 20m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, 0.2-0.4cm long, scale-like, in whorls, hairless.  Male and female cones on the same plant.

Differs from Callitris glaucophylla in that the cone scales are thick and united, forming a thick cone-base; and from Callitris verrucosa in that it is a tree to 20m tall, and the cones are smooth or sparsely warty.

Description (as Callitris preissii ssp. murrayensis) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 36

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitris~gracilis

Note that subspecies are no longer recognised.