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  Cupressus gigantea Cheng & Fu 1975

Common Names

Tsangpo River cypress.

Taxonomic notes

Foliar terpene contents of the five Chinese Cupressus species indicates that C. gigantea is most distinct of the group, but otherwise reveals no obvious chemotaxonomic groupings (3).

Description

Range

Tibet, in the Tsangpo River valley (2).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Has been used in climate reconstructions (1).

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Wu Xiangding. 1992. Dendroclimatic studies in China. P.432-445 in R.S. Bradley and P.D. Jones, eds., Climate Since A.D. 1500. London: Routledge Press.
(2) Farjon 1998.
(3) L.G. Cool, Z.L. Hu and E. Zavarin. 1998. Foliage terpenoids of Chinese Cupressus species. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 26(8): 899-913.

See also:

W.C. Cheng and L.K. Fu. 1975. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 13(4): 85.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 24-Oct-1999

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