Foliage and cones (3).
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Larix gmelinii
var.
olgensis
(Henry) Ostenfeld & Syrach Larsen
Common NamesTaxonomic notesSynonymy (all from (1)):L. olgensis Henry L. amurensis Kolesn. ex Dylis L. 1ubarskii Sukachev L. olgensis f. intermedia Takenouchi L. dahurica f. multilepis Liou & Wang L. olgensis f. viridis Nakai. L. olgensis var. koreana Nakai; L. dahurica var. koreana Nakai; L. gmelinii var. koreana (Nakai) Uyeki (1). L. dahurica var. principis-rupprechtii f. viridis Wilson 1920 (1). L. olgensis var. changpaiensis Yang & Chou; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. intermedia (Takenouchi) Yang & Nie; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. viridis (Wilson) Yang & Nie; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. pubibasis Yang & Nie (1). DescriptionTree to 30 m tall and 80 cm dbh. In coastal areas, it usually has a twisted trunk and deformed crown. Young shoots are reddish-brown, covered with dense reddish dawn. Leaves to 3 cm long. Cones to 3 cm long, on short shoots with leaves. Each cone has up to 50 scales. Seed scales rounded, velvety. Pollination in April-May, seeds mature in August-October (3).RangeRussia, China and North Korea. Locally common in coastal Ussuriland (Ol'ga Bay NE of Vladivostok is type loc.); rare and local inland. Found at a few locations in China (Jilin and E Liaoning) and North Korea (1, 3); also found at up to 1000 m in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Ussuriland (2). Listed as rare in Russia.Big TreeThe largest specimens are said to be on Oblachnaya Mt., in Ussuri River headwaters (3).OldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsEasy to see along the coastal highway to Terney within Sikhote-Alinsky Zapovednik (3)RemarksCitations(1) Farjon 1990 .(2) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 2-Jan-1998. (3) S. Harkevich and N. Kachura. 1981. Rare Plant Species of The Soviet Far East and Their Conservation. Nauka, Moscow (in Russian). |
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