Larix potaninii

Larix potaninii
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Larix potaninii is listed as Least Concern.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pinophyta
Classis: Pinopsida
Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Larix
Species:
Varietates: L. p. var. chinensis – L. p. var. macrocarpa – L. p. var. potaninii

Name

Larix potaninii Batalin, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 13: 385 (1894).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Asia-Temperate
    • China
      • China North-Central, China South-Central, Tibet.
  • Asia-Tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Nepal.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Additional references

  • Farjon, A. 2001. World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers. 2. ed., 309 pp. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-025-0 Reference page. 
  • Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. 2 vols., pp. 1–526 + 527–1111, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-17718-5. Reference page. 
  • Qiu, Xiu-Fei, et al. 2024. Phylogenomic analyses shed new light on the spatiotemporal evolution of global larches: Implications for the dynamics of boreal forests. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 202: 108240. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108240 [note: genetic analysis shows that L. himalaica is much more closely related to L. griffithii than to L. potaninii; they exclude it from L. potaninii and propose treatment as "L. griffithii var. himalaica", but did not formally publish this new combination]

Vernacular names

  • العربية: أرزية بوتانينية
  • Deutsch: Chinesische Lärche
  • English: Chinese Larch
  • Esperanto: Ĉina lariko
  • فارسی: سیاه‌کاج چینی
  • suomi: Kiinanlehtikuusi
  • перем коми: Потанин лисвень
  • lietuvių: Nepalinis maumedis
  • polski: Modrzew chiński
  • русский: Лиственница Потанина
  • 中文: 红杉
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