Flora of New Zealand Series

Yellow Silver Pine.

Type locality: Kirk gives several localities. Type: Kirk's t. 20 may be accepted as indicating the type form.

Tree up to 15m., trunk 3-6 dm., bark brownish grey. Wood yellow. Lvs of juveniles 9-15 mm. long, spreading, narrow-linear-subulate, acute, recurved, subterete; of semi-juveniles (often flowering and fruiting in this stage) 3-6 mm. long, closer set, subpatent, broadly subulate, trigonous, acute to subacute; of adults 1·5-3 mm. long, imbricate, appressed, rhomboid, obtuse, keeled, coriac. Male strobili solitary, terminal, 5-6 mm. long, c. 2 mm. wide; apiculus broadly triangular, obtuse. Ovule solitary, terminal, final 3-4 scale lvs thin; ovule erect; epimatium not more than 1/4 length of seed, which is 3-5 mm. long, narrow to broad-oblong, nutlike, black, apiculus curved.

DIST.:N., S., St. Lowland, montane and subalpine forest from 35° south-wards; in S. and St. on western side. In S. sts dominant in bog forest.