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Picea morrisonicola

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Picea morrisonicola

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Also known as Taiwan Spruce

species of plant

In the Vinony graph

Picea morrisonicola is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.

Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Picea morrisonicola, and connects out to Taiwan, plant and International Standard Book Number.

It sits within the topics Endemic flora of Taiwan, IUCN Red List vulnerable species and Picea.

Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Vulnerable

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassPinopsida
  4. OrderPinales
  5. FamilyPinaceae
Native toTaiwan
Observations recorded760

Trees to 50 m tall; trunk to 1.5 m d.b.h.; bark grayish brown, scaly, flaking; branchlets initially brown or yellowish brown, turning grayish brown in 2nd year, glabrous; winter buds ovoid, rarely conical-ovoid, scales appressed at base of branchlets. Leaves densely arranged, directed forward on upper side of branchlets, spreading on lower side, linear, straight or slightly curved, broadly rhombic in cross section, 0.8-1.4 cm × ca. 1 mm, stomatal lines 5 along each surface adaxially and 2 or 3 along each surface abaxially, apex acute. Seed cones red or purplish green, maturing brown, rarely with a little purple, oblong- or ovoid-cylindric, 5-7 × 2.5-3 cm. Seed scales somewhat closely arranged, those at middle of cones obovate, ca. 1.5 × 1.2 cm, base broadly cuneate or slightly rounded, apex broadly rounded. Seeds nearly obovoid, ca. 3-4 mm; wing yellowish or orange-brown, obovate-oblong, 6-7 mm. Pollination Apr, seed maturity Oct.

via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
29
With media
24
Family
Pinaceae
Collections
UTEP, US, MICH, ANSP, NHMUK, BPBM
Recorded in
Taiwan, Japan, TaïWan

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Picea
Image
Picea morrisonicola Alishan.jpg
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taxon rank
species
IUCN conservation status
Vulnerable
taxon name
Picea morrisonicola
Commons category
Picea morrisonicola
Commons gallery
Picea morrisonicola
short name
P. morrisonicola
taxon common name
白松柏
endemic to
Taiwan Island
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