Austrocedrus occurs as genus of conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. It has sole a single species, Austrocedrus chilensis, and is endemic to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and the adjacent drier steppe-forests of central-southern Chile and western Argentina. These are known within its native vicinity when Ciprés diamond state la Cordillera or Cordilleran Cypress, & elsewhere per scientific title when Austrocedrus, or even occasionally when Chilean Incense-cedar.

These are the member of subfamily Callitroideae, the class action of distinct southern hemisphere genera associated with a Antarctic flora. These are closely related the New Zealand and New Caledonian genus Libocedrus, and occasionally plant scientist deal with it in this genus, when Libocedrus chilensis, though it resembles Libocedrus to a lesser degree a more South Our contries cypress genus Pilgerodendron does.

These are the slow-growing, narrowly conic evergreen tree which grows from 10-2 dozen m inside height, by owning shell-such as leaves arranged in intersecting pairs. the leaves come unequal within size, by owning pairs of big (Four-8 millimeter) leaves alternating by owning pairs of little (Two-Three millimetre) leaves, yielding a planate shoot. Apiece leaf has the large whiten stomatal stripe along the outer edge. A cones are 5-10 millimeter hanker, using iv scales, deuce super little unfertile radical scales & deuce big fertile scales; for each one fertile shell has deuce winged seeds 3-4 millimeter yearn.

Cordilleran Cypress is observed in the evergreen mountain forests of the Andes, usually around drier web sites inside a rainside forest, in open pure wilderness (in which these are typically locally dominant on the eastern slopes of the Andes in southwestern Argentina) or even in association by owning Araucaria araucana and Nothofagus species.