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Calocedrus  1. Calocedrus decurrens (Torrey) Florin, Taxon. 5:
192. 1956.  Incense-cedar, cedro incienso  Libocedrus decurrens
Torrey, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(1) [6(2)]: 7, plate 3. 1853
Trees to 57 m; trunk to 3.6 m diam. Bark cinnamon brown,
fibrous, furrowed and ridged. Branchlet segments mostly 2 or
more times longer than wide, broadening distally. Leaves 3--14
mm, including long-decurrent base, rounded abaxially, apex acute
(often abruptly), usually mucronate. Pollen cones red-brown to
light brown. Seed cones oblong-ovate when closed, red-brown to
golden brown, proximal scales often reflexed at cone maturity,
median scales then widely spreading to recurved, distal scales
erect. Seeds 4 or fewer in cone, 14--25 mm (including wings),
light brown. 2 n = 22.  Montane forests; 300--2800 m; Calif.,
Nev., Oreg.; Mexico in Baja California.  Incense-cedar is an
important commercial softwood