Picea purpurea

Summary

Picea purpurea, also known as purple cone spruce and purple-coned spruce is a species of spruce found only in China.[1] It is likely to be a hybrid species produced by crosses between Picea likiangensis and Picea wilsonii,[2] or possibly involving other species.[3]

Picea purpurea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species:
P. purpurea
Binomial name
Picea purpurea
Detail

References edit

  1. ^ a b Farjon, A. (2013). "Picea purpurea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T42334A2973488. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42334A2973488.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Yongshuai Sun; Richard J. Abbott; Lili Li; Long Li; Jiabin Zou & Jianquan Liu (2014). "Evolutionary history of Purple cone spruce (Picea purpurea) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: homoploid hybrid origin and Pleistocene expansion". Molecular Ecology. 23 (2): 343–359. doi:10.1111/mec.12599. PMID 26010556. S2CID 5153568.
  3. ^ Yuan Li; Michael Stocks; Sofia Hemmilä; Thomas Källman; Hongtao Zhu; Yongfeng Zhou; Jun Chen; Jianquan Liu & Martin Lascoux (2010). "Demographic histories of four spruce (Picea) species of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and neighboring areas inferred from multiple nuclear loci". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27 (5): 1001–1014. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp301. PMID 20031927.