Larix mastersiana

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Overview

Vulnerable

Description

Genus Larix

Trees deciduous; crown sparse, open. Bark silver-gray to gray-brown on young trees, becoming reddish brown to brown, smooth initially, scaly to thickened and furrowed with age. Branches whorled ; short (spur) shoots prominent on twigs 2 years or more old, each bearing leaves (needles ), and often pollen cone, or seed cone; lateral long shoots (sylleptic branches) sometimes produced by current-year growth increments ; leaf scars many. Buds rounded . Leaves in tufts of 10--60 on short (spur) shoots or borne singly on 1st-year long shoots, deciduous, ± flattened, with abaxial keel, sessile, base decurrent, sheath absent, apex pointed or rounded; resin canals 2. Pollen cones solitary, ovoid-cylindric, yellowish. Seed cones maturing in 1 season , persisting several years, erect , globose to ovoid , usually terminal on short shoots and thus appearing stalked, sometimes sessile on 1-year-old long shoots; scales persistent , circular to oblong-obovate, thin, lacking apophysis and umbo; bracts included or exserted. Seeds winged ; cotyledons 4--6. x =12.

Species 10: boreal and cold north temperate areas, North America, Eurasia .

Species of Larix are present in most boreal regions; they often form only a minor component of the vegetation. Some are important for their hard, heavy, and decay-resistant wood . Only a few have received any horticultural attention; some cultivars exist for the most commonly cultivated Old World larches, L. decidua Miller and L. kaempferi (Lambert) Carrière, but almost none for the North American species.[1]

Habitat

Ecology: Woodlands and mixed forest at 2,300-3,500 m along various river systems .[2]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Larix Griffithiana Mastersiana
2. Larix griffithiana var. mastersiana (Rehder & E. H. Wilson) Silba
3. Larix griffithii Hook. f. var. mastersiana (Rehder & E. H. Wilson) Silba
4. Larix Griffithii Mastersiana
5. Larix griffithii var. mastersiana (Rehder & E. H. Wilson) Silba

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Farjon A., 11-Jan-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Larix

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 164 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. alaskaensis · L. alaskensis · L. altaica · L. altoborealis · L. americana · L. amurensis · L. caducifolia · L. cajanderii · L. chinensis · L. czekanowskii · L. dahurica Turcz. ex Trautv. var. koreana Nakai · L. dahurica var. kurilensis · L. davurica · L. decidua (Dunkeld Hybrid Larch) · L. decidua 'Autumn Gold Weeping' · L. decidua 'Corley' (European Larch) · L. decidua 'Croxby Broom' · L. decidua 'Globus' · L. decidua 'Horstmann Recurved' · L. decidua 'Julian's Weeper' (European Larch) · L. decidua 'Kornik' · L. decidua 'Krejci' · L. decidua 'Little Bogle' · L. decidua Mill. 'Alba' · L. decidua Mill. 'Cerviconis' · L. decidua Mill. 'Compacta' · L. decidua Mill. 'Conica' · L. decidua Mill. 'Fastigiata' · L. decidua Mill. 'Kellermannii' · L. decidua Mill. 'Pendulina' · L. decidua Mill. 'Repens' · L. decidua Mill. var. polonica (Racib. ex Woycicki) Ostenf. & Syrach · L. decidua Mill. 'Viminalis' · L. decidua Mill. 'Virgata' · L. decidua 'Pendula' (Weeping European Larch) · L. decidua 'Puli' · L. decidua 'Pyramidalis' · L. decidua var. polonica · L. decidua var. carpatica · L. decidua var. decidua (European Larch) · L. decidua var. polonica · L. decidua var. rossica · L. decidua 'Varied Directions' (European Larch) · L. decidua 'Whorled Peace' (European Larch) · L. eurolepis · L. europaea · L. europoea · L. fraseri · L. gmelini · L. gmelinii · L. gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen. 'Litria' · L. gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen. var. cajander (Mayr.) Silba · L. gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen. var. gmelinii · L. gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen. var. olgensis (A.Henry) Ostenf. & Syrach · L. gmelinii f. hsinganica (Dahurian Larch) · L. gmelinii olgensis · L. gmelinii 'Tharandt' · L. gmelinii var. gmelinii · L. gmelinii var. japonica · L. gmelinii var. olgensis · L. gmelinii var. principis-rupprechtii · L. griffithii · L. griffithii var. griffithii · L. griffithii var. speciosa · L. henryana · L. intermedia · L. kaempferi · L. kaempferi (Japanese Larch) · L. kaempferi 'Bambino' · L. kaempferi 'Bingman' · L. kaempferi 'Blue Ball' · L. kaempferi 'Blue Dwarf' · L. kaempferi 'Blue Haze' · L. kaempferi 'Blue Rabbit' (Japanese Larch) · L. kaempferi 'Blue Rabbit Weeping' · L. kaempferi 'Blue Sparkler' (Japanese Larch) · L. kaempferi 'Cruwys Morchard' · L. kaempferi 'Cupido' · L. kaempferi 'Dervaes' · L. kaempferi 'Diana' · L. kaempferi 'Diane' · L. kaempferi 'Elizabeth Rehder' · L. kaempferi 'Grant Haddow' · L. kaempferi 'Green Pearl' · L. kaempferi 'Grey Pearl' · L. kaempferi 'Hanna's Broom' · L. kaempferi 'Herynek Wb' (Larch) · L. kaempferi 'Hobbit' · L. kaempferi 'Jakobsen' · L. kaempferi 'Jakobsen's Pyramid' · L. kaempferi 'Little Blue Star' · L. kaempferi 'Nana' · L. kaempferi 'Nana Prostrata' · L. kaempferi 'Pendula' · L. kaempferi 'Peve Tunnis' · L. kaempferi 'Pulii' · L. kaempferi 'Stiff Weeping' · L. kaempferi var. pendula (Weeping Japanese Larch) · L. kaempferi 'Varley' · L. kaempferi 'Walter Pimven'

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Further Reading

• Farjon, A. et al. 1998. Data collection forms for conifer species completed by the IUCN/SSC Conifer Specialist Group between 1996 and 1998.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Li-kuo, F. and Jian-ming, J. (eds) 1992. China Plant Red Data Book – Rare and Endangered Plants 1. Science Press, Beijing.
• Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers) 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Wang, S.Y. 1986. List of threatened plants of China. List with IUCN categories; endemism not given (unpublished).
• Arno, S.F. and J.R. Habeck. 1972. Ecology of alpine larch (Larix lyallii Parl.) in the Pacific Northwest. Ecol. Monogr. 42: 417--450.
• Bakowsky, O.A. 1989. Phenotypic Variation in Larix lyallii and Relationships in the Larch Genus. M.Sc.F. thesis. Lakehead University.
• Carlson,C. 1965. Interspecific Hybridization of Larix occidentalis and Larix lyallii. M.Sc.F. thesis. University of Montana.
• Dickinson, T.A., W.H. Parker, and R.E. Strauss. 1987. Another approach to leaf shape comparisons. Taxon 36: 1--20.
• Knudsen, G.M. 1968. Chemotaxonomic Investigation of Hybridization between Larix occidentalis and Larix lyallii. M.Sc.F. thesis. University of Montana.
• Owens, J.N. and S.Simpson. 1986. Pollen from conifers native to British Columbia. Canad. J. Forest Res. 16: 955--967.
• Parker, W.H. and T.A. Dickinson. 1990. Range-wide morphological and anatomical variation in Larix laricina. Canad. J. Bot. 68: 832--840.
• Powell, G. R. 1987. Syllepsis in Larix laricina: Analysis of tree leaders with and without sylleptic long shoots. Canad. J. Forest Res. 17: 490--498.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• Conifer Database 2006.
• Conifer Specialist Group 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Conifer Specialist Group 2000. Larix mastersiana. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8739751
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Con-2446
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:676912-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 676912-1
• IUCN ID: 31288
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 748808

Footnotes

1. William H. Parker "Larix". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Conifer Specialist Group 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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