Picea purpurea

Picea purpurea
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Picea
Species:	P. purpurea
Binomial name
Picea purpurea Mast.

Detail

Picea purpurea, also known as purple cone spruce and purple-coned spruce is a species of spruce found only in China. ^[1] It is likely to be a hybrid species produced by crosses between Picea likiangensis and Picea wilsonii , ^[2] or possibly involving other species. ^[3]

References

1. Farjon, A. (2013). "Picea purpurea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013: e.T42334A2973488. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42334A2973488.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Yongshuai Sun; Richard J. Abbott; Lili Li; Long Li; Jiabin Zou & Jianquan Liu (2014). "Evolutionary history of Purple cone spruce (Picea purpurea) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: homoploid hybrid origin and Pleistocene expansion". Molecular Ecology . 23 (2): 343–359. Bibcode:2014MolEc..23..343S. doi: 10.1111/mec.12599 . PMID   26010556. S2CID   5153568.
3. Yuan Li; Michael Stocks; Sofia Hemmilä; Thomas Källman; Hongtao Zhu; Yongfeng Zhou; Jun Chen; Jianquan Liu & Martin Lascoux (2010). "Demographic histories of four spruce (Picea) species of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and neighboring areas inferred from multiple nuclear loci". Molecular Biology and Evolution . 27 (5): 1001–1014. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp301 . PMID   20031927.