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Libocedrus chevalieri is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia, occurring in three small, isolated populations on low mountain summits at 650–1,620 m altitude in cloud forest scrub on serpentine soils. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2][1]

Libocedrus chevalieri
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
(unranked):	Gymnosperms
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Cupressaceae
Genus:	Libocedrus
Species:	L. chevalieri
Binomial name
Libocedrus chevalieri J.Buchh.

It is an evergreen coniferous shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 5 m tall, often multi-stemmed, with trunks up to 10 cm diameter. The foliage is arranged in flattened sprays; the leaves are scale-like, 2.5–5 mm long and 2–2.5 mm broad, arranged in opposite decussate pairs on the shoots. The seed cones are cylindrical, 12–16 mm long, with four scales each with a prominent curved spine-like bract; they are arranged in two opposite decussate pairs around a small central columella; the outer pair of scales is small and sterile, the inner pair large, each bearing two winged seeds. They are mature about six to eight months after pollination. The pollen cones are 8–10 mm long.[2]

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[de] Libocedrus chevalieri

Libocedrus chevalieri ist ein immergrüner Nadelbaum aus der Gattung der Schuppenzedern (Libocedrus). Die Art bildet Sträucher oder kleine Bäume mit dichten und buschigen Kronen. Das Verbreitungsgebiet liegt auf Neukaledonien, dort wächst sie nahe dreier Gipfel in Buschwald mit hohen jährlichen Niederschlagsmengen. Sie ist vom Aussterben bedroht und hat keine wirtschaftliche Bedeutung.

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