 | Keteleeria fortunei (A. Murray) CarrièreCommon NamesTaxonomic notesSyn: K. cyclolepis; K. oblonga (1); Abies fortunei A. Murray; Abietia fortunei Kent. (2).Description"A tree [24 m] high in China, with corky bark and the habit of a Lebanon cedar. BRANCHES horizontal and spreading. BRANCHLETS orange-red, young shoots slender, with scattered hairs. BUDS ovoid, rounded at the apex, with numerous keeled scales. LEAVES of young trees linear, stiff, [2.5-3 cm] long, with spiny tips. LEAVES of mature trees [12-31 mm] long, rounded or shortly pointed at the apex. CONES cylindrical, [10-18 cm] long, [3-5 cm] wide (or [7.5 cm] wide when expanded), on stout, hairy stalks about [2.5 cm] long, purple or brownish when mature; scales larger and broader at the apex than K. davidiana, the widest part (about [3 cm]) being above the middle, the upper margin rounded and slightly toothed. SEED about [2 cm] long, with a wing [3 cm] in. long, both seed and wing larger than in K. davidiana, bright glossy brown in colour, the seed greyish beneath" (2).RangeChina (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Hong Kong; Viet Nam (5). In S China, found in mountains near Fuzhou, where it was seen by Fortune in 1844, who distributed seeds and accounted for the eponymous epithet (2).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarksThis species is listed as "Lower Risk, near threatened" on the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database (5).Citations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967. (3) Farjon 1989. (4) Farjon 1990. (5) World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, accessed 1-Oct-1998. |
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