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Pinaceae

Picea

Picea polita (Siebold & Zucc.) Carrière

First published in Traité Gén. Conif.: 256 (1855)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Central & S. Japan. It is a tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

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Native to:

Japan

Homotypic Synonyms

Abies polita Siebold & Zucc. in Fl. Jap. (Lugduni) 2: 20 (1842)
Abies thunbergii (Lamb.) Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. 1: 34 (1833)
Abies torano Siebold ex K.Koch in Dendrologie 2(2): 233 (1873), nom. illeg. superfl.
Picea thunbergii (Lamb.) Asch. & Graebn. ex Engl. in Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2. 13: 181 (1926)
Picea torano Koehne in Deut. Dendrol.: 22 (1893), nom. illeg. superfl.
Pinus abies Thunb. in Fl. Jap. (Lipsiae): 275 (1784), sensu auct.
Pinus polita (Siebold & Zucc.) Antoine in Coniferen: 95 (1841)
Pinus thunbergii Lamb. in Descr. Pinus 2: v (1824)
Pinus torano Voss in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 16: 93 (1907), nom. illeg. superfl.

Heterotypic Synonyms

Picea polita f. rubriflora Kobayasi bis in J. Jap. Bot. 40: 191 (1965)
Picea torano f. rubriflora (Kobayasi bis) Yonek. in J. Jap. Bot. 80: 323 (2005)

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Pinidae
Order
Pinales

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Family
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Genus
Picea

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Species
Picea polita

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

von Schroeder, F.-G. & Bayer, R. (1973). Zur Nomenklatur von Picea polita und Pinus thunbergii. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft 66: 61-68.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

Farjon, A. (2001). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers, ed. 2: 1-309. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Picea torano.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

Farjon, A. (2010). A handbook of the world's Conifers 2: 533-1111. BRILL, Leiden, Boston.

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IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

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