Book contents
- Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms: Pattern, Process and Diversity
- Reviews
- Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Structure of the Volumes
- Part I Aims, Approaches and Diversity
- Part II Phylogenetic Bases and Revised Taxonomic Structure
- Part III Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations
- Chapter 1 Ginkgo
- Chapter 2 Picea
- Chapter 3 Cathaya
- Chapter 4 Pinus
- Chapter 5 Larix
- Chapter 6 Pseudotsuga
- Chapter 7 Abies
- Chapter 8 Nothotsuga
- Chapter 9 Tsuga
- Chapter 10 Keteleeria
- Chapter 11 Pseudolarix
- Chapter 12 Cedrus
- Chapter 13 Taxus
- Chapter 14 Pseudotaxus
- Chapter 15 Austrotaxus
- Chapter 16 Cephalotaxus
- Chapter 17 Amentotaxus
- Chapter 18 Torreya
- Chapter 19 Sciadopitys
- Chapter 20 Cupressus
- Chapter 21 Hesperocyparis
- Chapter 22 Chamaecyparis
- Chapter 23 Fokienia
- Chapter 24 Thujopsis
- Chapter 25 Thuja
- Chapter 26 Xanthocyparis
- Chapter 27 Juniperus
- Chapter 28 Platycladus
- Chapter 29 Microbiota
- Chapter 30 Calocedrus
- Chapter 31 Neocallitropsis
- Chapter 32 Callitris
- Chapter 33 Actinostrobus
- Chapter 34 Widdringtonia
- Chapter 35 Tetraclinis
- Chapter 36 Libocedrus
- Chapter 37 Papuacedrus
- Chapter 38 Austrocedrus
- Chapter 39 Pilgerodendron
- Chapter 40 Diselma
- Part IV From Ecosystem Services to Conservation and Sustainability
- Selected Bibliography
- Genus Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter 7 - Abies
Pinales: Abietaceae
from Part III - Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2024
- Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms: Pattern, Process and Diversity
- Reviews
- Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Structure of the Volumes
- Part I Aims, Approaches and Diversity
- Part II Phylogenetic Bases and Revised Taxonomic Structure
- Part III Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations
- Chapter 1 Ginkgo
- Chapter 2 Picea
- Chapter 3 Cathaya
- Chapter 4 Pinus
- Chapter 5 Larix
- Chapter 6 Pseudotsuga
- Chapter 7 Abies
- Chapter 8 Nothotsuga
- Chapter 9 Tsuga
- Chapter 10 Keteleeria
- Chapter 11 Pseudolarix
- Chapter 12 Cedrus
- Chapter 13 Taxus
- Chapter 14 Pseudotaxus
- Chapter 15 Austrotaxus
- Chapter 16 Cephalotaxus
- Chapter 17 Amentotaxus
- Chapter 18 Torreya
- Chapter 19 Sciadopitys
- Chapter 20 Cupressus
- Chapter 21 Hesperocyparis
- Chapter 22 Chamaecyparis
- Chapter 23 Fokienia
- Chapter 24 Thujopsis
- Chapter 25 Thuja
- Chapter 26 Xanthocyparis
- Chapter 27 Juniperus
- Chapter 28 Platycladus
- Chapter 29 Microbiota
- Chapter 30 Calocedrus
- Chapter 31 Neocallitropsis
- Chapter 32 Callitris
- Chapter 33 Actinostrobus
- Chapter 34 Widdringtonia
- Chapter 35 Tetraclinis
- Chapter 36 Libocedrus
- Chapter 37 Papuacedrus
- Chapter 38 Austrocedrus
- Chapter 39 Pilgerodendron
- Chapter 40 Diselma
- Part IV From Ecosystem Services to Conservation and Sustainability
- Selected Bibliography
- Genus Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
Moderate to large-sized, fast-growing, evergreen trees, mostly with dense, narrow, tapering pyramidal crowns. Leaves are ultimately shed cleanly by basal abscission zones which leave smooth, nearly circular scars to their shoots. Unlike Picea, leaves remain persistent on their shoots when branches are dried. Female cones are erect and seed liberation is by dismemberment of cone scales from the central columella, allowing both seed and scales to fall individually in the wind.
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- Evolution of the Arborescent GymnospermsPattern, Process and Diversity, pp. 188 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024