Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata, Mount Baker, Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cupressaceae
Subfamilia: Cupressoideae
Genus: Thuja
Species: Thuja plicata

Name

Thuja plicata Donn ex D.Don in A.B.Lambert, Descr. Pinus 2: 19 (1824).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Thuja occidentalis var. plicata (Donn ex D.Don) Loudon ex Hoopes, Book Evergr.: 321 (1868).
• Heterotypic
  • Thuja menziesii Douglas ex Endl., Syn. Conif.: 52 (1847).
  • Thuja lobbiana Gordon, Pinetum: 323 (1858).
  • Thuja lobbii Gordon, Pinetum: 323 (1858).
  • Libocedrus craigiana H.Low ex Gordon, Pinetum, Suppl.: 102 (1862), nom. inval.
  • Libocedrus gigantea H.Low ex Gordon, Pinetum, Suppl.: 102 (1862), nom. inval.
  • Thuja douglasii Nutt. ex Parl. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 457 (1868), pro syn.
  • Thuja californica K.Koch, Dendrologie 2(2): 177 (1873).
  • Thuja plicatilis Beissn., Handb. Nadelholzk.: 44 (1891).
  • Thuja plicata var. penduliformis Sudw., Bull. Div. Forest. U.S.D.A. 14: 73 (1897), nom. nud.

References

• Tutin, T.G., Burges, N.A., Chater, A.O., Edmondson, J.R., Heywood, V.H., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (eds.) 1993. Flora Europaea. Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae. 2nd edition, xlvi + 581 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK) / New York / Melbourne, ISBN 0-521-41007-X. 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. 
• Farjon, A., 2013. Thuja plicata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013. IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42263A2968155.en. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Thuja plicata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 June 7. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Thuja plicata. Published online. Accessed: June 7 2019.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Northern America Northwestern U.S.A. Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington. Southwestern U.S.A California. Subarctic America Alaska. Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

Vernacular names

dansk: Kæmpe-Thuja
Deutsch: Riesen-Lebensbaum
English: Western Redcedar
español: Tuya
suomi: Jättituija
français: Thuya géant
galego: Tuia xigante
hrvatski: Tuja azijska golema
magyar: Óriás tuja
日本語: ベイスギ
Nederlands: Reuzenlevensboom
polski: Żywotnik olbrzymi
Türkçe: Boylu mazı

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