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Tsuga dumosa

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Tsuga dumosa

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Also known as Himalayan hemlock

species of plant

Species

Least Concern

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassPinopsida
  4. OrderPinales
  5. FamilyPinaceae
Native toChina South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya
Observations recorded1,970

Trees to 40 m tall; trunk to 2.7 m d.b.h.; bark brownish gray or gray-brown, thick, longitudinally fissured; crown pyramidal; branchlets initially yellowish or reddish brown, turning light brown or dark gray in 2nd or 3rd year, ridged and grooved, brown lanate. Leaves pectinately arranged, linear, rarely narrowly linear-lanceolate, 1-2.4 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, grooved adaxially, abaxial stomatal bands white, distal margin entire or serrulate, apex obtuse, entire or occasionally emarginate. Seed cones light green, maturing light brown, ovoid or narrowly so, 1.5-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide. Seed scales obovate-orbicular, 1-1.4 cm long, 0.7-1.2 cm wide, base only slightly convex, distal part slightly recurved, very thin, smooth. Bracts cuneate-rhombic, margin denticulate, apex 2-lobed. Seeds obliquely ovoid or narrowly ovoid, 0.8-1.2 cm including wing.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
128
With media
43
Family
Pinaceae
Collections
CAS
Recorded in
China

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Tsuga
Image
Tsuga dumosa Bhutan2.jpg
Has use
wood
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taxon rank
species
IUCN conservation status
Least Concern
Commons category
Tsuga dumosa
taxon name
Tsuga dumosa
Commons gallery
Tsuga dumosa
taxon common name
硬鳞铁杉
longest observed lifespan
613
short name
T. dumosa
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