Stand at Dolon-Uran Ridge, north of Lake Baikal [Vladimir Dinets] (4).
Common Names
Jel sibirskaya [Russian] (3).Taxonomic notes
Syn: P. abies ssp. obovata (Ledeb.) Hultén; P. excelsa var. altaica Tepl.; P. obovata var. coerulea Tigerstedt; P. o. var. argentea Luchnik; P. o. var. krylovii Luchnik; P. o. var. lucifera Luchnik; P. o. var. lutescens Luchnik; P. o. var. pendula Luchnik; P. o. var. seminskiensis Luchnik; P. o. var. tschiketamanica Luchnik. Very similar to P. abies, arguably synonymous. An intermediate form in NE Russia, P. × fennica, represents an introgressive hybrid between the two species (3). Some authors describe a variety camchatica, in central Kamchatka (2).Description
Range
N Europe to Kamchatka. Var. fennica in S Sweden, S Norway to Leningrad (1). Alternatively, the species is continuous with P. abies, the division (and zone of introgression) occurring in the Ural Mountains, with P. obovata extending E from the Urals to the Sea of Okhotsk (3).Big Tree
42 m tall with a 150 cm dbh, on the Svyatoi Nos Peninsula, Lake Baikal, Russia. For var. fennica: Valaam Isl., Ladoga Lake, Russia (40 m, dbh 2.4 m) (2).Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 2-Jan-1998.
(3) Farjon 1990.
(4) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 2-Feb-2000
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