Picea rubens

Picea rubens, Great Smoky Mountains, USA

Picea rubens strobilus; Maine, USA

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Picea rubens is listed as Least Concern.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pinophyta Classis: Pinopsida Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species: Picea rubens

Name

Picea rubens Sarg., Silva N. Amer. 12: 33 (1898).

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Pinus acutissima Münchh., Hausvater 5(1): 225 (1770).
    • Picea acutissima (Münchh.) J.G.Jack, Gard. & Forest 10: 63 (1897).
  • Pinus canadensis var. rubescens Weston, Bot. Univ. 1: 211 (1770).
  • Pinus mariana var. rubra Du Roi, Diss. Inaug. Obs. Bot.: 39 (1771).
    • Abies rubra (Du Roi) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 520 (1804).
    • Pinus rubra (Du Roi) D.Don in A.B.Lambert, Descr. Pinus, ed. 2, 2: 43 (1828).
    • Picea rubra (Du Roi) Link, Handbuch 2: 478. 1831).
    • Picea nigra var. rubra (Du Roi) Engelm., Gard. Chron., n.s., 11: 334 (1879).
  • Pinus americana Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 60 (1790).
  • Pinus rubra var. violacea Endl., Syn. Conif.: 114 (1847.
  • Picea rubra var. pendula Carrière, Traité Gén. Conif., ed. 2: 323 (1867).
  • Abies americana K.Koch, Dendrol. 2(2): 241 (1873.
  • Picea rubra var. pusilla Peck, Spruces Adirondacks: 10 (1897).
  • Picea australis Small, Fl. S.E. U.S.: 30 (1903).
  • Picea rubra f. virgata Rehder, Rhodora 9: 110 1907).
    • Picea rubra var. virgata (Rehder) Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 5: 2619 (1916).
  • Picea americana Suringar, Meded. Rijks-Herb. 55: 47 (1928).
  • Picea rubens f. virgata Fernald & Weath., Rhodora 34: 211 (1932).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Eastern Canada New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec. Northeastern U.S.A Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, St. Pierre Miquelon, Vermont, West Virginia. Southeastern U.S.A North Carolina, Tennessee. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Additional references

• Taylor, R.J. 1993. Picea rubens. Pp. 370 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.), Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, XVI, 475 pp. ISBN 0-19-508242-7. efloras FNA Website Internet Archive, Lending Library Reference page. 
• Farjon, A. 2001. World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers. 2. ed., 309 pp. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-025-0 Reference page. 
• Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. 2 vols., pp. 1–526 + 527–1111, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-17718-5. Reference page. 

Links

• Farjon, A. 2013. Picea rubens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013. IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern . DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42335A2973542.en..
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Picea rubens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 20. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Picea rubens. Published online. Accessed: March 20 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Picea rubens. Accessed: 20 March 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. Picea rubens. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 20. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Atikamekw: Oskisk
azərbaycanca: Qırmızı küknar
Deutsch: Amerikanische Rot-Fichte
English: Red Spruce
suomi: Punakuusi
français: Épinette rouge
íslenska: Brúngreni
Lëtzebuergesch: Amerikanesch Routfiicht
lietuvių: Raudonoji eglė
norsk: Rødgran
polski: Świerk czerwony
русский: Ель красная
Türkçe: Kırmızı ladin
Tiếng Việt: Vân sam đỏ

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