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Foliage and cone of var. gracilis (4).

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Stand of var. mayriana at Kunashir, Kurile Islands [Vladimir Dinets] (5).

Abies sachalinensis (Schmidt) Mast.

Common Names

Sachalin fir (2).

Taxonomic notes

Four described varieties, including the type:

A. sachalinensis var. sachalinensis

Synonymy:
A. veitchii var. sachalinensis F. Schmidt 1868;
Pinus sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Vossin, Putlitz & Meyer 1913;
A. nephrolepis subsp. sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) V.N. Voroshilov 1991;
A. homolepis var. tokunaiae Carrière 1855;
A. akatodo Miyabe ex Sargent 1893;
A. sachalinensis var. corticosa Tatew. 1935;
A. sachalinensis f. corticosa (Tatew.) Hayashi 1960

A. sachalinensis var. gracilis (Kom.) Farjon 1990

Synonymy:
A. gracilis Kom. 1901
A. siberica var. gracilis (Kom.) Patschke 1935

A. sachalinensis var. mayriana Miyabe & Kudo 1919

Synonymy:
A. mayriana (Miyabe & Kudo) Miyabe & Kudo 1920

A. sachalinensis var. nemorensis Mayr. 1890

Synonymy:
Pinus sachalinensis var. nemorensis (Mayr.) Vossin, Putlitz & Meyer 1913;
A. nemorensis (Mayr.) Miyabe & Kudo 1915;
A. wilsonii Miyabe & Kudo 1919;
A. sachalinensis var. wilsonii (Miyabe & Kudo) Viguié & Gaussen 1929.

Description

I currently have only this description for var. gracilis: Tree to 15 m tall with a dense pyramidal crown. Leaves dark-green, to 3 cm long and 2 mm wide. Cones cylindrical, to 5 cm long. Seeds with one wing (4).

Range

Russia (Sakhalin, S. Kuril Isls, one small stand on Kamchatka), Japan (3). Var. gracilis is only known from one small grove (0.2 sq.km) in Semyachik valley, Eastern Kamchatka (within Kronotsky Zapovednik). Probably introduced by native people few hundred years ago (4).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.

(2) Vidakovic 1991.

(3) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 2-Jan-1998.

(4) S. Harkevich and N. Kachura. 1981. Rare Plant Species of The Soviet Far East and Their Conservation. Nauka, Moscow (in Russian).

(5) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 30-Jan-2000.

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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 6-Feb-2000

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