Tsuga

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Tsuga
Species: T. canadensis – T. caroliniana – T. chinensis – T. diversifolia – T. dumosa – T. formosana – T. forrestii – T. heterophylla – T. mertensiana – T. sieboldii – T. ulleungensis
Nothospecies: T. × jeffreyi

Name

Tsuga (Endl.) Carrière, Traité Gén. Conif.: 185 (1855).

Synonyms

Basionym
- Pinus sect. Tsuga Endl., Syn. Conif. 83 (1847).
  - Typus: Pinus tsuga Siebold & Zucc. ≡ Tsuga sieboldii Carrière
Heterotypic
- Abies sect. Micropeuce Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 11: 424 (1842).
  - Typus Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière
- Micropeuce Gordon, Pinetum, Suppl.: 13 (1862), nom. inval.
- Tsuga [unranked] Hesperopeuce Engelm. in S. Watson, Bot. Calif. 2: 121 (1880).
  - Typus: Hesperopeuce pattoniana (J.Jeffrey ex A.Murray) Lemmon (Abies pattoniana J.Jeffrey ex A.Murray = Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière)
  - Hesperopeuce (Engelm.) Lemmon, Rep. (Annual) Calif. State Board Forest. 3: 100 (1890).
- × Tsugopiceotsuga Van Campo & Gaussen, Trav. Lab. Forest. Toulouse 1(4)24: 11 (1948).
- × Hesperotsuga C.N.Page, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 45: 389 (1988 publ. 1989).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe (introduced)
- Regional: Northern Europe
  - Denmark, Føroyar, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden.
- Regional: Middle Europe
  - Germany, Poland.
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - France.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: China
  - China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet.
- Regional: Eastern Asia
  - Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
Continental: Asia-Tropical
- Regional: Indian Subcontinent
  - East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya.
- Regional: Indo-China
  - Myanmar.
Continental: Northern America
- Regional: Subarctic America
  - Alaska.
- Regional: Western Canada
  - Alberta, British Columbia.
- Regional: Eastern Canada
  - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec.
- Regional: Northwestern U.S.A.
  - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington.
- Regional: North-Central U.S.A.
  - Minnesota, Wisconsin.
- Regional: Northeastern U.S.A.
  - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia.
- Regional: Southwestern U.S.A.
  - California, Nevada.
- Regional: Southeastern U.S.A.
  - Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Carrière, É.-A. 1855. Traité général des conifères ou description de toutes les espèces et variétés aujourd'hui connues, Avec leur Synonymie, l'indication des procédés de culture et de multiplication qu'il convient de leur appliquer. xv + 656 pp., Paris: chez l'Auteur. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page.

Additional references

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

Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Tsuga in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 24. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2024. Tsuga. 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. 2024. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Tsuga. Published online. Accessed: 24 February 2020.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Tsuga in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2024 Jun 18.

Vernacular names

čeština: Jedlovec
dansk: Hemlock
Deutsch: Hemlocktannen
English: Hemlock
Esperanto: Cugo
suomi: Hemlokit
magyar: Hemlokfenyő
日本語: ツガ属
македонски: Цуга
Nederlands: Hemlockspar
polski: Choina
Türkçe: Suga