Family:
Pinaceae Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
Genus:
Abies Mill.

Abies pindrow (Royle ex D.Don) Royle

This species is accepted, and its native range is N. Afghanistan to Nepal.

[EDGE]

Forest, F. et al. 2018. Gymnosperms on the EDGE. Scientific Reports 8: 6053. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24365-4.

Conservation
Abies pindrow is rated as Least Concerned (LC) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of -8.19, which places it in position 929 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 5.55, ranked 703. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Nepal, West Himalaya

English
West Himalayan Fir

Abies pindrow (Royle ex D.Don) Royle appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: t. 86 (1836)

Accepted by

  • Farjon, A. (2001). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers, ed. 2: 1-309. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Farjon, A. (2010). A handbook of the world's Conifers 1: 1-526. BRILL, Leiden, Boston.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

  • EDGE Gymnosperms

    EDGE of Existence (Gymnosperms)
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0