Keteleeria

Carrière 1866

Common names

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Abietia A.H. Kent 1900. Type species: K. fortunei (Andr. Murray) Carrière.

In 1862, Murray described some specimens sent by Robert Fortune to England as Picea fortunei. A year later the species was transferred to Abies, and thence (in 1866) to Keteleeria. Over time, 14 species and 1 variety have been described (Farjon 1990). Farjon (1989) reduced this number to the three species treated here.

Description

See Wu and Raven (1999).

Range

China: S Gansu, S Shaanxi, E Sichuan, Yunnan, SW Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong (with the island of Hainan), SW Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, also on Taiwan and on Hong Kong Island. Isolated populations also occur in the mountains of N Laos and S Vietnam (Farjon 1990).

Big tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

The name commemorates a French nurseryman, J. B. Keteleer (1813-1903) (Dallimore et al. 1967).

Citations

See Also

Axelrod, D.I. 1976. History of the coniferous forests, California and Nevada. University of California Publications in Botany 70. Univ. of Calif. Press.

Carrière, E.A. 1866. Keteleeria fortunei (Murr.) Carrière comb. nov. Rev. Hort. 1866:449-451.

Farjon 1984.

Flous, F. 1936. Révision du genre Keteleeria. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 70:273-348.

Hsueh, C.J. 1983. A new variety of Keteleeria evelyniana. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 21(3):253.

Kanehira, R. 1936. Formosan trees indigenous to the island (revised). Taihoku, Formosa [Taiwan]: Dept. of Forestry, Govt. Research Inst.