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Athrotaxis selaginoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows in mountainous areas at 400–1,120 m elevation. Snow frequently falls here in the colder months, though possible all year round.
A. selaginoides seed cones.. Athrotaxis is a genus of two to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae.The genus is endemic to western Tasmania, where they grow in high-elevation temperate rainforests.
English: Also know as the King William Pine, these trees are extinct on the mainland and grow only in the mountainous region along the northwestern and southeastern margins of the central plateau and from the Mt Field Range to the mountains of the west and southwest.
Athrotaxis: Tasmanian cedars; Athrotaxis cupressoides: pencil pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Athrotaxis selaginoides: King Billy pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Callitris: cypress-pines; Callitris columellaris: white cypress-pine; Murray River cypress-pine; northern cypress-pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Callitris preissii
Low and dominated by Athrotaxis cupressoides or Athrotaxis selaginoides (less commonly). [24] Open canopy, widely spaced trees allow bright light to penetrate the lower levels of the forest. In some communities, the canopy can be dense and instead resemble a high-elevation callidendrous forest.
Higher-elevation conifer forests include pencil pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides), King Billy pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides), and Athrotaxis laxifolia, with a shrub layer that includes the dwarf conifers Diselma archeri and Pherosphaera hookeriana (also known as Microstrobos niphophilus). [1]
Typical genera include Nothofagus, Eucryphia, Atherosperma, Athrotaxis, Dicksonia, and Tmesipteris. [1] Predominant trees in Tasmania include myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and the Tasmanian endemic conifers huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii), celery top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius), and King Billy pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides).
William Lanne's name is believed to be the source of the "King Billy Pine", or Athrotaxis selaginoides, a native Tasmanian tree now an endangered species, threatened by climate change. [ 16 ] See also