Morinda L.

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Description:

Trees to 60 m tall; trunk to 2 m d.b.h.; bark pale brown, breaking into irregular plates; crown conical; branchlets pendulous, pale brown or pale gray when young, glabrous; winter buds reddish brown, conical or ovoid, scales slightly open, rarely appressed at base of branchlets. Leaves spreading radially, directed obliquely forward, quadrangular-linear, slender, curved, quadrangular or subquadrangular in cross section, 3.3-5.5 cm × 1.3-1.8 mm, stomatal lines 2-5 along each surface, apex acute or acuminate. Seed cones green, maturing brown, lustrous, cylindric or fusiform-cylindric, 10-18 × 4.5-5 cm. Seed scales broadly obovate, thick, ca. 3 × 2.4 cm, rigid, base cuneate, apex entire, broadly triangular-obtuse. Seeds dark brown, ca. 5 mm; wing ovoid-oblong, 1-1.5 cm, apex pointed.

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Description:

Tall tree up to 30 m or more. Bark greyish‑brown. Branches drooping. Leaves 2.511 cm long. Male cones axillary, solitary, 2‑2.5 cm long. Micro sporophylls with 2 linear sporangia. Young female cones erect, reddish‑green, mature ones pendulous, dark brown, ellipsoid, 10‑15 x 2.5‑5 cm. Bract scales membranous. Seeds 5‑6 mm long, dark grey, wing twice as long as the seed.

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Description:

Trees up to 30 m tall or more, with a narrow pyramidal shape. Bark fissured, light grey to brown. Leaves spiral, 2‑4 cm long, upper surface grooved, dark green, shiny. Male cones I‑2 cm long, axillary, ellipsoid, reddish‑green; microsporophyll with ‑2 linear sporangia; microspores winged. Female cones 8‑12 cm long, solitary or in pairs, narrowly oblong, violet‑purple; m2gasporophyll obovate, 2 cm long. Seeds 1‑1.2 cm long; wing twice as long as the seed.

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Synonym:

Pinus smithiana Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 24. 1832; Picea khutrow (Royle ex Turra) Carriere; P. morinda Link; Pinus khutrow Royle ex Turra.

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Elevation Range:

2100-2500 m

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Habitat and Ecology:

Habitat and Ecology

Picea smithiana is a high mountain species, occurring in the Himalayas in a belt between (2,300-)2,500-3,600(-3,750) m a.s.l. on alpine lithosols. The climate is moist monsoon, with abundant precipitation in two rainy seasons, but becoming gradually drier in the western parts of the range. Some of the precipitation falls as snow which accumulates over winter. It usually occurs with Abies spectabilis, Pinus wallichiana and Tsuga dumosa (eastern part of the range) and with Abies pindrow and Cedrus deodara in the western part. It is best developed on northerly exposed slopes in Kashmir. At lower elevations various broad leaved trees, e.g. Quercus spp., Acer spp., Prunus spp., Ulmus spp., and Aesculus indica become dominant.

Systems

  • Terrestrial
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Habitat and Ecology:

Habitat and Ecology

Abies pindrow is a species of high mountains, occurring between 2,000 m and 3,300 m a.s.l. (occasionally as high as 3,700 m; Liu 1971), on alpine lithosols. The climate is cool, moist monsoon, with abundant precipitation, but less than in the eastern Himalayas, much of it falling as snow. It occurs in pure stands or in association with Picea smithiana, Pinus wallichiana, Tsuga dumosa and Cedrus deodara; at lower elevations broad-leaved trees, e.g. Quercus semecarpifolia, Q. dilatata, Juglans regia, Aesculus indica, Acer spp., Prunus spp., and Ulmus spp. become more important, replacing the conifers below 1,600 m.

Systems

  • Terrestrial
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Habitat:

Alpine lithosols; 2300-3600 m.

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Habitat:

`Silver fir' is common and gregarious in the Himalaya up to 3100 m, usually. on the North aspect. A useful timber tree for building purposes. The wood is used for making matches and paper pulp. Cones ripen in September.

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Habitat:

The `Himalayan spruce' is fairly common from 2500‑3300 m. Usually found in mixed forests of fir, blue pine and cedar. Sometimes develops pseudocones, which look like young female cones and are in fact formed by wooly aphidsAdelges. Cones ripen in October‑November.

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