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Abies pinsapo


Abies pinsapo - Spanish fir description


 

Scientific name: Abies pinsapo   Boissier  1838

Synonims: Abies hispanica Chambray, Abies pinsapo var. glauca Carrière, Abies pinsapo subsp. hispanica (Chambray) Maire, Abies pinsapo var. hispanica (Chambray) Christ, Abies pinsapo var. pendula (Beissn.) C.K.Schneid., Abies pinsapo subsp. pinsapo, Picea pinsapo (Boiss.) Loudon, Picea pinsapo var. argentea J.Nelson, Picea pinsapo var. glauca (Carrière) Gordon, Pinus pinsapo (Boiss.) Antoine, Pinus sapo d'Ounous

Infraspecific taxa: Abies pinsapo subsp. marocana (Trab.) Emb. & Maire   1938

Common names: Spanish fir, Pinsapo, Abeto español (Spanish)



Description

Tree to 30(-50) m tall, with trunk to 0.8(-1.5) m in diameter. Bark grayish brown, becoming deeply ridged and furrowed with age. Branchlets hairless, often shiny, grooved between the leaf bases. Buds 3.5-5 mm long, resinous or not. Needles arranged straight out all around the twigs or bent upward or denser toward the sides, (0.6-)1-2(-2.5) cm long, shiny dark green above, the tip sharp to blunt, rounded, or even slightly notched. Individual needles stiff, thick in cross section and with a resin canal on either side near the edge either just inside the lower epidermis or deep within the leaf tissue, with 1-14 continuous or discontinuous lines of stomates in a variably expressed central groove above, especially near the apex, and 6-7(-10) lines in each greenish white stomatal band beneath. Pollen cones 5-7(-15) mm long, reddish purple. Seed cones cylindrical, (9-)12-18(-25) cm long, 3.5-5(-6) cm across, greenish, yellowish, or reddish brown when young, maturing yellowish to purplish brown. Bracts no more than half as long as the seed scales and hidden by them. Persistent cone axis narrowly conical. Seed body 7-10 mm long, the wing up to 1.5 times as long. Cotyledons five to seven.

Mountains of the southwestern Mediterranean in southeastern Spain, northern Morocco, and northern Algeria. Forming pure stands or mixed with Atlas cedar (Cedrus libani subsp. atlantica) in rocky soils at higher elevations and with other conifers and evergreen hardwoods below; (1,000-)1,200-1,800(-2,100) m. In Morocco Abies pinsapo occurs in the Mediterranean humid bioclimatic zone. The average annual rainfall is 1,500 mm, increasing to 1,900 mm at an altitude of 1,700 m.

 

Conservation Status

Red List Category & Criteria: Endangered

 

Varieties:

Abies pinsapo ’Argentea’
Abies pinsapo ’Atlas’   
Abies pinsapo ’Aurea’
Abies pinsapo ’Aurea Wilkins’
Abies pinsapo ’Barbara’s Dwarf’
Abies pinsapo ’Bell’
Abies pinsapo ’Blaubar’
Abies pinsapo ’Bois’
Abies pinsapo ’Clarke’
Abies pinsapo ’Delbert’s Dwarf’
Abies pinsapo ’Enrice’
Abies pinsapo ’Espania’
Abies pinsapo ’Fastigiata’
Abies pinsapo ’Fatima’
Abies pinsapo ’Glauca’
Abies pinsapo ’Glauca Compacta’
Abies pinsapo ’Glauca Prostrata’
Abies pinsapo ’Guek Silber’
Abies pinsapo ’Hammondii’
Abies pinsapo ’Haunet Feld’
Abies pinsapo ’Horcajo’
Abies pinsapo ’Horstmann’
Abies pinsapo ’Kelleriis’
Abies pinsapo ’Kelleriis Broom’
Abies pinsapo ’Kilmacurragh’
Abies pinsapo ’La Fiesta’
Abies pinsapo ’Marokko’
Abies pinsapo ’Monte Jaque’ 
Abies pinsapo ’Monteverde’ 
Abies pinsapo ’Nana’
Abies pinsapo ’Nana Glauca’
Abies pinsapo ’Pendula’
Abies pinsapo ’Pendula Glauca’
Abies pinsapo ’Prostrata’
Abies pinsapo ’Pygmaea’
Abies pinsapo ’Pyramidalis Glauca’ 
Abies pinsapo ’Pyramidata’
Abies pinsapo ’Quicksilver’
Abies pinsapo ’Ronda-Holubec’
Abies pinsapo ’Ronda Mt.’
Abies pinsapo ’Roquelle’ 
Abies pinsapo ’Rosemoor Form’
Abies pinsapo ’San Diego Creeper’
Abies pinsapo ’San Petro’
Abies pinsapo ’San Rogue’
Abies pinsapo ’Soltan’
Abies pinsapo ’Soltau’
Abies pinsapo ’Tuareg’
Abies pinsapo ’Vanc’
Abies pinsapo ’Variegata’
Abies pinsapo ’Weeping Blue’

 

Attribution from: Conifers Garden


 

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