Foliage and cone of var. gracilis (Harkevich and Kachura 1981).

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

Stand of var. sachalinensis on hill in background, on Shikotan in the Kurile Islands (Larix gmelinii var. japonica in foreground) [Vladimir Dinets] (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 2000.02.01).

Abies sachalinensis in Akan National Park, Hokkaido [Vladimir Dinets, 2006] (click HERE for more photos).

Abies sachalinensis

(Schmidt) Mast.

Common Names

Sachalin fir (Vidakovic 1991).

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 (Harkevich and Kachura 1981).

Range

Russia (Sakhalin, S. Kuril Isls, one small stand on Kamchatka), Japan (Vladimir Dinets e-mail, 2-Jan-1998). 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 (Harkevich and Kachura 1981).

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Citations

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