| Callitris pancheri | |
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| Specimen at Chutes de la Madeleine, New Caledonia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Cupressales |
| Family: | Cupressaceae |
| Genus: | Callitris |
| Species: | C. pancheri
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| Binomial name | |
| Callitris pancheri | |
| Synonyms2 | |
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Callitris pancheri2 is a plant species of the family Cupressaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia, where it occurs in small, scattered population along rivers.1 It used to be placed in its own genus Neocallitropsis but molecular phylogenetic analysis indicated that it was nested within Callitris, but only when the New Caledonian species C. sulcata (to which it is most closely related) is included.3
It is an evergreen coniferous tree growing to 2–10 metres (7–33 ft) tall. The leaves are awl-shaped, 1 centimetre (0.4 in) long, arranged in eight rows in alternating whorls of four; in overall appearance, the foliage is superficially similar to some species of Araucaria, though they are only very distantly related; in Araucaria the leaf arrangement is spiral, not in whorls. Callitris pancheri is dioecious, with separate male and female trees; the seed cones are 1.5–2.0 cm (0.6–0.8 in) long, with eight woody scales arranged in two whorls of four.
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Callitris pancheri at Chutes de la Madeleine, New Caledonia -
Adult foliage and pollen cones, Chutes de la Madeleine, New Caledonia -
Juvenile foliage, Parc provincial de la Rivière Bleue, New Caledonia
References
References
- Hequet, Vanessa; Lagrange, Alexandre; Dumontet, Vincent; Lannuzel, Guillaume; Suprin, Bernard; Cazé, Hélène; Amice, Rémy; McCoy, Stéphane (2017-07-03). "Callitris pancheri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- Byng, J. W. (2015). The Gymnosperms Handbook: A practical guide to extant families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd.
- Pye, M. G., P. A. Gadek, and K. J. Edwards (2003). Divergence, Diversity and Species of the Australasian Callitris (Cupressaceae) and Allied Genera: Evidence from ITS Sequence Data. Australian Systematic Botany 16: 505–14.