All Floras      Advanced Search
FOC Vol. 4 Page 72 Login | eFloras Home | Help
FOC | Family List | FOC Vol. 4 | Cupressaceae | Juniperus

7. Juniperus recurva Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 2: 55. 1825.

垂枝柏 chui zhi bai

Shrubs or trees monoecious or rarely dioecious; bark light grayish brown or brown; crown conical or broadly pyramidal; branches ascending in apical part of plant and spreading toward base; branchlets pendulous, curved. Leaves in whorls of 3, loosely appressed, greenish white or slightly glaucous adaxially, all needlelike, nearly straight, slightly incurved, 3-10 × ca. 1 mm, concave adaxially, base decurrent, convex with longitudinal grooves at base abaxially, apex sharply pointed. Pollen cones axillary, yellow, ovoid-oblong or ellipsoid-ovoid; microsporophylls 10-16, decussate, each with 3 pollen sacs. Seed cones axillary, slightly glaucous when young, maturing purplish black and not glaucous, ovoid, 6-12 × 5-9 mm, 1-seeded. Seeds ovoid or conical-ovoid, 5-9 × 3-6 mm.

Forests or thickets; 1800-3900 m. SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Afghanistan, Bhutan, N India, Kashmir, N Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim].


1 Seed cones 7-12 × 6-9 mm; seeds ovoid, 6-8 × 5-6 mm; leaves without a green midvein adaxially   7a var. recurva
+ Seed cones 6-8 × 5-6 mm; seeds conical-ovoid, 5-6 × 3-4 mm; leaves with a prominent, green midvein adaxially 7b_ var. coxii   (1)

Lower Taxa


 

Related Objects Image Gallery 
  • Illustration
  • Illustration
  • Illustration
  • Illustration

    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    Browse by
    Volume
    Family
    Genera
    Advanced Search


    Flora of China Home


    Checklist

     

     

     |  eFlora Home |  People Search  |  Help  |  ActKey  |  Hu Cards  |  Glossary  |