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Cupressus gigantea Cheng & Fu 1975
Common NamesTsangpo River cypress.Taxonomic notesFoliar terpene contents of the five Chinese Cupressus species indicates that C. gigantea is most distinct of the group, but otherwise reveals no obvious chemotaxonomic groupings (3).DescriptionRangeTibet, in the Tsangpo River valley (2).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyHas been used in climate reconstructions (1).EthnobotanyObservationsRemarksCitations(1) Wu Xiangding. 1992. Dendroclimatic studies in China. P.432-445 in R.S. Bradley and P.D. Jones, eds., Climate Since A.D. 1500. London: Routledge Press.(2) Farjon 1998. (3) L.G. Cool, Z.L. Hu and E. Zavarin. 1998. Foliage terpenoids of Chinese Cupressus species. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 26(8): 899-913. See also: W.C. Cheng and L.K. Fu. 1975. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 13(4): 85. |
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