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Schmuckzypressen

:	Resinous wood plants (Pinophyta)
:	Pinopsida
:	(Pinales)
:	(Cupressaceae)
:	Callitroideae
:	Schmuckzypressen

Scientific name

Callitris

Ventenat 1808

Schmuckzypressen (Callitris) are a kind with approximately 19 kinds, it belong to the Unterfamilie Callitroideae in that the (Cupressaceae). (Syn: Frenela, Fresnelia, Leichardtia, Pachylepis, Octoclinis, Parolinia). The botanische name comes from the Greek one: callos = beautifully and treis = three, it refers to the very beautiful trees and the needles and the Zapfen-Schuppen, which are summarized too third in Wirteln.

Spreading

From the 18 kinds 16 in Australia and two is resident in Neukaledonien. In Florida a kind is verwildert.

Description

Schmuckzypressen are evergreen trees or bushes. The crust remains for a long time at the tree, it is hard and compact. The sheets are

Schmuckzypressen are getrenntgeschlechtig Female and male taps are on different Zweigen.Die male tap are, to two to several together, at the ends of the branches. The holzigen female taps are spherical to oval and with a diameter from 10 to 30 mm. Per fertiler Zapfen-Schuppe develop to eight winged seeds, with one to three wings.

The highest well-known tree in this kind is a C. macleayana with 50 m height and 15 m diameters.

Use

They have a insect-steady wood.

Systematics

The kind is arranged into two sections, in the kind Schmuckzypressen (Callitris) gives it to 15 to 19 kinds:

Section Callitris
- C. baileyi
- C. canescena
- C. columellaris
- C. drummondii
- C. endlicheri
- White Zypresse (C. glaucophylla): Their spreading hands from the western Queensland until new South Wales, to about 800 to 1200 kilometers from the Pacific coast far away, it is admits for the natural termite resistance.
- C. intratropica (Syn.: C. columellaris var. intratropica): Homeland is northern Australia. It supplies a blue ethereal oil with interesting characteristics (blue
- C. monticola
- C. muelleri
- C. neocaledonica, Neukaledonien.
- C. oblonga
- C. preissii, supplies Sandarak.
  - C. preissii ssp. preissii
  - C. preissii ssp. murrayensis (Syn.: C. propinqua)
- C. rhomboidea
- C. roei
- C. sulcata
- C. tuberculata (a Syn is with some authors. of C. verrucosa)
- C. verrucosa
Section Octoclinis
- C. macleayana: Areas in Queensland and new South Wales.