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 Abies chengii Rushforth 1983

Common Names

Cheng fir (1).

Taxonomic notes

Has been placed in synonymy with A. delavayi but is here treated as a distinct species, albeit quite similar to A. forrestii. This species is unique in the Database because it has no known range. It was described from material collected in arboreta in England, Scotland and Ireland, derived from seed collected in Yunnan by George Forrest in 1931. Given this provenance, it is possibly a hybrid involving A. chensiensis ssp. salouenensis (1).

Description

See (1).

Range

Cultivated in sundry UK arboreta, probably native to China: Yunnan (1).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Farjon 1990.

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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/pi/ab/chengii.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 18-Jan-1999

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