Picea purpurea

Picea purpurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species: P. purpurea
Binomial name
Picea purpurea
Mast.

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]


References

  1. A. Farjon (2013). "Picea purpurea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  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.
  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.


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