The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·135522SpeciesPlantae200 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›conifers
  4. ›conifers
  5. ›cypress family
  6. ›cypress-pines, incense-cedars, and allies
  7. ›Widdringtonia
Willowmore cypress
Plate 1 of 12. (c) Matt Berger, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Matt Berger · via iNaturalist
IUCN NT · Near threatened

Willowmore cypress

Widdringtonia schwarzii

Widdringtonia schwarzii, the Willowmore cedar or Willowmore cypress, Afrikaans: Baviaanskloof-seder) is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is endemic to the Baviaanskloof and Kouga Mountains west of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa; it occurs on dry rocky slopes and crags at 600–1,200 m altitude. It is threatened by habitat loss, particularly by wildfire. The Willowmore cypress is a protected tree in South Africa.

It is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20–25 m (formerly known to 40 m) tall. The leaves are scale-like, 1.5 mm long and 1 mm broad on small shoots, up to 10 mm long on strong-growing shoots, and arranged in opposite decussate pairs. The cones are globose to rectangular, 2–3 cm long, with four scales. It is closely related to Widdringtonia wallichii from Western Cape Province, being most easily distinguished by its larger seeds with a short seedwing.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Widdringtonia schwarzii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 135522.