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Abies squamata

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Abies squamata

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species of plant

Species

Vulnerable

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassPinopsida
  4. OrderPinales
  5. FamilyPinaceae
Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, Qinghai, Tibet
Observations recorded348

Trees to 40 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h.; bark of trunk breaking into square, rough plates, inner bark red when fresh, bark of young trees and 4th-year branchlets exfoliating into irregularly papery scales (like that of Betula). Branchlets brown, turning brownish gray in 2nd or 3rd year, ± pubescent or glabrous; winter buds globose, resinous. Leaves densely arranged, ascending on upper side of branchlets, spreading in 2 lateral sets on lower side, dark green adaxially, linear, ± falcate, 1.5-3 cm × ca. 2 mm, stomatal lines in 2 white bands separated by midvein abaxially, 3-15 near apex adaxially (where incomplete), resin canals 2, median or almost marginal in young leaves, apex acute or obtuse. Seed cones subsessile, erect, black or violet-brown at maturity, shortly cylindric or narrowly ovoid, 5-8 × 2.5-3.5 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones almost reniform, ca. 1.3 × 1.5 cm, apex thickened. Bracts slightly exserted, obovate-cuneate, 1-1.4 cm, distal margin erose-denticulate, apex rounded or slightly emarginate, cusp recurved or straight. Seeds oblong-cuneate, ca. 5 mm; wing as long as seed.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
20
With media
20
Family
Pinaceae
Collections
US, A, NCSC, NHMUK, B, UF
Recorded in
China, United States, Chine

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Abies
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Abies squamata with Pica bottanensis, Litang County, Ganzi Tibetan AP, Sichuan, China 1.jpg
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taxon rank
species
IUCN conservation status
Vulnerable
taxon name
Abies squamata
Commons category
Abies squamata
taxon common name
杉松
short name
A. squamata
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