Callitris columellaris F.Muell.

Erect, columnar tree to 30 m tall. Branches erect or fastigiate. Leaves 1-3 mm long on ultimate branchlets, dark green; dorsal surface rounded. Male cones solitary or clustered, cylindrical, to 5 mm long. Female cones solitary on slender fruiting branchlets, ovoid or depressed-globular, 15-20 mm diam., shedding seeds and deciduous shortly after maturity; cone scales 6, thin, separating almost to the base and spreading widely after opening; dorsal point below the apex small or absent; alternate scales reduced; larger scales apically sharply inturned; columella variable, usually thick and 3-angled, 5-7 mm high. Seeds numerous, chestnut-coloured; wings 2 or 3, c. 4 mm wide.

Light soils, occasionally near the coast, but usually in dry inland areas up to the montane zone. Locally abundant on deep coastal sands.

Can be grown by seedlings.