Cyprus cedar

Cyprus cedar
	Cyprus cedar ( Cedrus brevifolia )
Systematics
Class :	Coniferopsida
Order :	Conifers (Coniferales)
Family :	Pine family (Pinaceae)
Subfamily :	Abietoideae
Genre :	Cedars ( Cedrus )
Type :	Cyprus cedar
Scientific name
	Cedrus libani var. Brevifolia
	( Hook. F. )

Young tree

The Cyprus cedar ( Cedrus libani var. Brevifolia Hook.f. , Syn .: Cedrus brevifolia (Hook. F.) & Elwes A. Henry ) is a plant type from the kind of cedar ( Cedrus ) in the family of Pinaceae ( Pinaceae).

description

The Cyprus cedar is an evergreen tree that reaches heights of up to 20 meters in its natural habitat. The trunk diameter can exceed 1 meter. The branches run horizontally and are relatively short. The crown of old specimens is broad and umbrella-shaped.

The needle-shaped leaves are 5 to 8 (to 12) millimeters long and thick and blue-green.

The female cones are cylindrical with a clear thickening at the concave end. They become about 7 inches long and 4 inches wide.

Spread and endangerment

The Cyprus cedar grows endemically on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus , where it occurs in the Troodos Mountains and in the mountain regions of Pophos and Tripylos at altitudes of around 1350 meters. Their range is about 5 square kilometers.

It is classified as endangered ("vulnerable") on the IUCN Red List .

Systematics

It was first described in 1880 by Joseph Dalton Hooker under the name Cedrus libani var. Brevifolia Hook f. as a variety of the Cedrus libani . Augustine Henry placed it in Elwes and Henry: Trees of Great Britain and Ireland in 1908 as Cedrus brevifolia in the rank of a species. Like the North African Atlas cedar ( Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Manetti ), the Cyprus cedar is closely related to Lebanon -Cedar and is considered by some botanists as a subspecies of the Lebanon cedar ( Cedrus libani subsp. Brevifolia (Hook. F.) Meikle ).

literature

Christopher J. Earle: The Gymnosperm Database , 2011 (English).
Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica: The ABC of Plants. 10,000 species in text and images . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5 .

Web links

Commons : Cyprus Cedar ( Cedrus brevifolia ) - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Thomas Meyer: Data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )

Individual evidence

↑ Cedrus libani var. Brevifolia in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2011. Posted by: Christou, A & Gardner, M., 2011. Accessed November 28, 2011.
↑ JD Hooker : On the discovery of a variety of the Cedar of Lebanon on the Mountains of Cyprus . In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot. Band 17 , 1880, p. 517-519 .
↑ Elwes & Henry: Trees of Great Britain and Ireland iii . 467 (1908); Dode in Bull. Soc. Dendrol. France, 1908, 59.

[IUCN-1] Cedrus libani var. Brevifolia in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2011. Posted by: Christou, A & Gardner, M., 2011. Accessed November 28, 2011.

[Hooker-2] JD Hooker : On the discovery of a variety of the Cedar of Lebanon on the Mountains of Cyprus . In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot. Band 17 , 1880, p. 517-519 .

[Elwes-3] Elwes & Henry: Trees of Great Britain and Ireland iii . 467 (1908); Dode in Bull. Soc. Dendrol. France, 1908, 59.