Sequoiadendron Sequoiadendron, (Lindley) Buchholz
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1. S. giganteum (Lindley) Buchholz , Amer. Jour. Bot. 26: 536 (1939).
Up to 90 m in the wild, with narrow pyramidal crown; trunk up to 7 m in diameter above the thickened, buttressed base; bark thick and spongy, bright brown or reddish. Leaves c. 1 cm, becoming longer on older twigs, ovate to lanceolate, subulate, flat above, convex beneath, broadly decurrent at the base. Cones 5-8 x 3-4- 5 cm, terminal, ovoid; scales expanded into a rhomboidal disc, with a depression in the middle often bearing a slender mucro. Seeds 3-7 on each scale. Planted for ornament and occasionally for timber. [Au Ga.] ( California , W. North America.)
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Sequoiadendron Sequoiadendron
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964 |
S. giganteum (Lindley)
| Buchholz 1939: 536 |