Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pinophyta
Classis: Pinopsida
Ordo: Pinales
Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Abies
Sectio: A. sect. Abies
Species: Abies nebrodensis
Name
Abies nebrodensis (Lojac.) Mattei, Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 7: 64 (1908).
Synonyms
Basionym
Abies pectinata var. nebrodensis Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 2(2): 401 (1907).
Homotypic
Abies alba var. nebrodensis (Lojac.) Svoboda, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 13: 60 (1964).
Abies alba subsp. nebrodensis (Mattei) Nitz., Lustgården 49: 178 (1968).
Heterotypic
Abies pectinata Guss., Fl. Sicul. Syn. 2: 614 (1844), nom. illeg., non Lam. ex DC.
Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Europe
Southeastern Europe
Sicilia.
References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Additional references
Govaerts, R.H.A. 1995. World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2). 483, 529 pp. MIM, Deurne. ISBN 90-341-0852-X (issue 1) ISBN 90-341-0853-8 (issue 2). 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
Thomas, P. 2017. Abies nebrodensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017. IUCN Red List Category: Critically Endangered . DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T30478A91164876.en.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Abies nebrodensis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2023. Abies nebrodensis. Published online. Accessed: March 19 2023.
Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Abies nebrodensis. Accessed: 19 March 2023.
Hassler, M. 2023. Abies nebrodensis. 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. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 19. Reference page.
Vernacular names
العربية: شوح صقلي
български: Сицилийска ела
čeština: Jedle sicilská
Deutsch: Nebrodi-Tanne
English: Sicilian Fir
español: Abeto del Nébrodi
eesti: Sitsiilia nulg
فارسی: نراد سیسیلی
suomi: Sisilianpihta
íslenska: Sikileyjarþinur
italiano: Abete dei Nèbrodi
перем коми: Січильяись ньыв
norsk: Siciliaedelgran
русский: Пихта сицилийская
Türkçe: Sicilya göknarı
удмурт: Сицилиысь ньылпу
Abies nebrodensis, the Sicilian fir, is a fir native to the Madonie mountains in northern Sicily.
Taxonomy
It is closely related to silver fir, Abies alba, which replaces it in the Apennine Mountains of Italy and elsewhere further north in Europe; some botanists treat Sicilian fir as a variety of silver fir, as Abies alba var. nebrodensis. Needle morphology and Genetic studies showed ancient relationships of Abies nebrodensis with southern Italy Abies alba, Abies cephalonica and Abies numidica.
Description
It is a medium-size evergreen coniferous tree growing to 15–25 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m.[1]
The leaves are needle-like, flattened, 1.5–2.5 cm long and 2 mm wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green above, and with two greenish-white bands of stomata below. The tip of the leaf is blunt with a notched tip, but sometimes with a pointed tip, particularly on shoots high on older trees. The cones are 10–16 cm long and 4 cm broad, with about 150 scales, each scale with an exserted bract and two winged seeds; they disintegrate when mature to release the seeds.
Distribution
Despite its scientific name, the species is of Mt. Scalone in the Madonie Mountains in the north-central part of Sicily.[2]
Ecology
It occurs at altitudes of 1400–1,600 metres.[1] It is limited to the steep, dry slopes.
Conservation
As a result of deforestation, it is now extremely rare, with only 27 mature trees and a few seedlings are surviving in situ; replanting programmes are meeting with limited success due to heavy grazing pressure by livestock belonging to local farmers. Anyway, assisted migration programmes are being carried out by the University of Palermo as well as by the CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood of Arezzo in order to preserve the gene pool from the effect of the climatic belt shift. It has been classified as 'critically endangered' in the IUCN Red List in 2017.[1] In the European Union it has been designated as a 'priority species' under Annex II of the Habitats Directive, which means areas in which it occurs can be declared Special Areas of Conservation, if these areas belong to one of the number of habitats listed in Annex I of the directive.[3]
References
Thomas, P. (2017). "Abies nebrodensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T30478A91164876. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T30478A91164876.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
Abies nebrodensis. - distribution map, genetic conservation units and related resources. European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN)
"Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora". Eur-Lex. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
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