Pseudotsuga sinensis

Also known as Chinese douglas-fir

species of plant

In the Vinony graph

Vinony catalogs Pseudotsuga sinensis in its Vulnerable Species collection (16,386 entries).

Within Vinony's link graph, Pseudotsuga sinensis is referenced by 13 other articles, and connects out to China, Vietnam and Taiwan.

Vinony files it under Forestry in China, IUCN Red List vulnerable species and Pseudotsuga.

Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Vulnerable

Chinese Douglas-fir

SPECIES

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassPinopsida
OrderPinales
FamilyPinaceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan

Observations32

Observations recorded797

Trees to 50 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h.; bark gray or dark gray, irregularly and thickly scaly; branchlets initially pale yellow or yellowish gray, aging gray, usually glabrous or slightly pubescent on main branchlets and densely pubescent on lateral branchlets. Leaves pectinately arranged, linear, (1.3-)2-2.5(-3) cm × ca. 2 mm, stomatal bands abaxial, whitish or gray-green, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Seed cones pale purple, glaucous, maturing purplish brown, ovoid to ellipsoid- or conical-ovoid, 3.5-8 × 2-4.5 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones semiorbicular, flabellate, or reniform, 2.5-3 × 3.2-4.5 (-5) cm, rusty brown pubescent abaxially, base broadly cuneate or almost truncate, concave at sides. Bracts reflexed, cusp narrowly triangular, ca. 3 mm, apex obtuse. Seeds irregularly brown spotted abaxially, triangular-ovoid, slightly depressed, densely rusty brown pubescent adaxially; wing obliquely ovate or semitrullate. Pollination Apr, seed maturity Oct-Nov.

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