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

Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Siberia to Kamchatka and China.

[EDGE]

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

Conservation
Larix gmelinii is rated as Least Concerned (LC) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of -7.26, which places it in position 733 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 14, ranked 167. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.

Native to:

Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Yakutskiya

Introduced into:

Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Sweden

Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Trudy Bot. Muz. Rossiisk. Akad. Nauk 18: 41 (1920)

Accepted by

  • Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
  • Farjon, A. (2010). A handbook of the world's Conifers 1: 1-526. BRILL, Leiden, Boston.
  • Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • 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.
  • Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
  • Jonsell, B. (ed.) (2000). Flora Nordica 1: 1-344. The Bergius Foundaton.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

  • EDGE Gymnosperms

    EDGE of Existence (Gymnosperms)
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  • 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 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/
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