Common Name: YEW FAMILY Habit: Shrub or tree, evergreen; dioecious. Leaf: alternate, linear, decurrent, tip acute; not in bundles, generally appearing 2-ranked. Pollen Cone: with stamen-like structures. Seed: 1 at tip of short twig, partly or completely enclosed by subtending aril; coat woody; cotyledons 2. Genera In Family: 5 genera, 16 species: northern hemisphere; some Taxus species widely used in landscaping. eFlora Treatment Author: Matthew H. Hils Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: TORREYA Habit: Tree. Stem: trunk of regular width; branches horizontal; wood aromatic. Pollen Cone: with 6--8 whorls of 4 stamen-like structures. Etymology: (John Torrey, New York botanist, 1796--1873)
Torreya californica Torr.
NATIVE Stem: trunk to 20(25) m, < 1.5 m wide; bark +- smooth or fissured, brown, tinged orange. Leaf: +- 2-ranked, dark green adaxially, +- yellow-green abaxially, with 2 longitudinal, +- yellow grooves. Seed: 25--45 mm, oblong; coat +- longitudinally grooved. Ecology: Shady moist canyons in forest or woodland, occasionally chaparral; Elevation: 10--2100 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo, NCoR, CaRF, s CaRH, SN, CCo, SnFrB, n SCoRI. Unabridged Synonyms: Torreya myristica Hook.; Tumion californicum (Torr.) Greene Jepson eFlora Author: Matthew H. Hils Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Torreya Next taxon: Cabombaceae
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Botanical illustration including Torreya californica
Citation for this treatment: Matthew H. Hils 2012, Torreya californica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=46751, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Torreya californica:
NCo, NCoR, CaRF, s CaRH, SN, CCo, SnFrB, n SCoRI.
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