Larix gmelinii

SPECIES

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

Native toAmur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Magadan

Observations recorded7,787

Trees to 35 m tall; trunk to 90 cm d.b.h.; bark gray to dark gray, longitudinally fissured, scaly; crown ovoid-conical; branchlets initially yellowish brown, aging gray-brown or gray, slender, ca. 1 mm in diam., glabrous or pubescent; short branchlets 2-4 mm in diam., yellowish hairy at apex; winter buds subglobose, scales dark brown. Leaves 1.5-3 cm × 0.7-1 mm, keeled abaxially. Seed cones purplish red, maturing yellow-brown or purplish brown, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, 1.2-4 × 1-3 cm. Seed scales 14-45, pentagonal-ovate, 1-1.5 × 0.8-1.2 cm at middle of cone, glabrous and glossy abaxially, margin truncate or emarginate toward apex. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1/3-1/2 as long as seed scales, apex cuspidate. Seeds grayish with light brown spots, obliquely ovoid, ca. 10 mm including wing. Pollination May-Jun, seed maturity Sep.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

130

With media

121

Family

Pinaceae

Collections

UAM, NY, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, CM, IND, US

Recorded in

Russia, United States, Former U.S.S.R., China, Russian Federation, Germany

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Larix

Named after

Johann Georg Gmelin

Image

Larix gmelinii Tabaga.jpg

Has use

wood

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