Abies chensiensis

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassPinopsida
4. OrderPinales
5. FamilyPinaceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Tibet

Observations recorded357

Trees to 50 m tall; branchlets yellowish gray or brownish yellow, glabrous or puberulent; winter buds conical, resinous, Leaves ± pectinately arranged in 2 lateral sets, dark green adaxially, linear, flattened, 1.5-4.8 cm, stomatal lines in 2 white bands abaxially, resin canals 2, marginal or median on cone-bearing branchlets, apex 2-cleft acute or obtuse on cone-bearing branchlets. Seed cones subsessile, green, ripening brown, cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, 7-10 × 3-4 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones reniform, ca. 1.5 × 2.5 cm, exposed part densely pubescent abaxially. Bracts included, ligulate, ca. 3/4 as long as seed scales, distal margin erose-denticulate, apex with short cusp. Seeds obtriangular-ellipsoid, ca. 8 mm; wing cuneate, ca. 5 mm.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

49

With media

44

Family

Pinaceae

Collections

US, NY, NHMUK, NCSC, CLEMS, MOR

Recorded in

China, United States, United Kingdom

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Abies

Image

Abies chensiensis - Botanischer Garten Freiburg - DSC06478.jpg

Has use

medicinal plant

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