Pinaceae
Sign in to saveThe Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines, and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales. Pinaceae have distinctive cones with woody scales bearing typically two ovules, and are supported as monophyletic by both morphological trait and genetic analysis. They are the largest extant conifer family in species diversity, with between 220 and 250 species (depending on taxonomic opinion) in 11 genera, and the second-largest (afte
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Pinaceae is the pine family, a group of conifer trees and shrubs that includes many commercially important species like pines, firs, spruces, and cedars. It's the largest conifer family by species diversity, containing between 220 and 250 species, and is recognized by distinctive woody cones and supported by both physical and genetic evidence as a unified evolutionary group.
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Taxonomy · GBIF
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPinopsida
- OrderPinales
- FamilyPinaceae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- woody plant
- Image
- Cèdre du Liban Barouk 2005.jpg
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13 sectionsContents
- Description
- Evolution
- Fossil history
- Phylogeny
- Taxonomic history
- Genera
- Extant
- Extinct
- Defense mechanisms
- Constitutive defenses
- Induced defenses
- References
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The Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines, and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales. Pinaceae have distinctive cones with woody scales bearing typically two ovules, and are supported as monophyletic by both morphological trait and genetic analysis. They are the largest extant conifer family in species diversity, with between 220 and 250 species (depending on taxonomic opinion) in 11 genera, and the second-largest (after Cupressaceae) in geographical range, found in most of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority of the species in temperate climates, but ranging from subarctic to tropical. The family often forms the dominant component of boreal, coastal, and montane forests. One species, Pinus merkusii, grows just south of the equator in Southeast Asia. Major centres of diversity are found in the mountains of southwest China, Mexico, central Japan, and California.
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