Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pinophyta
Classis: Pinopsida
Ordo: Pinales
Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Abies
Sectio: A. sect. Piceaster
Species: Abies numidica
Name
Abies numidica de Lannoy ex Carrière, Rev. Horticole 37: 106 (1866).
Synonyms
Homotypic
Picea numidica (de Lannoy ex Carrière) Gordon, Pinetum ed.2: 220 (1875).
Abies pinsapo var. numidica (de Lannoy ex Carrière) Salomon, Deutsche Bäume Sträuch.: 26 (1884).
Abies pinsapo subsp. numidica (de Lannoy ex Carrière) A.E.Murray, Kalmia 12: 27 (1982).
Heterotypic
Abies pinsapo var. baborensis Cosson, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 8: 607, nom. nud. (1861).
Pinus [Abies] pinsapo var. baborensis Cosson ex Christ, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 23: 215 (1865).
Abies pinsapo var. baborensis Cosson, Rev. Hort. 37: 144 (1866).
Abies baborensis (Cosson) Cosson, Rev. Hort. 37: 182 (1866).
Vernacular names
العربية: شوح نوميدي
български: Алжирска ела
čeština: Jedle numidská
Deutsch: Numidische Tanne
English: Algerian Fir
Esperanto: Numida abio
español: Abeto de Argelia
فارسی: نراد الجزایری
suomi: Algerianpihta
français: Sapin d'Algérie
íslenska: Afríkuþinur
italiano: Abete numidico
Taqbaylit: Tumert
перем коми: Алжирись ньыв
norsk: Algieredelgran
polski: Jodła numidyjska
русский: Пихта нумидийская
удмурт: Алжирысь ньылпу
Abies numidica, the Algerian fir, is a species of fir found only in Algeria, where it is endemic on Djebel Babor, the second-highest mountain (2,004 meters) in the Algerian Tell Atlas.[1][2][3]
Description
Abies numidica is a medium-sized to large evergreen tree growing to 20–35 meters tall, with a trunk up to 1 meter diameter. The leaves are needle-like, moderately flattened, 1.5–2.5 centimeters long and 2–3 millimeters wide by 1 millimeters thick, glossy dark green with a patch of greenish-white stomata near the tip above, and with two greenish-white bands of stomata below. The tip of the leaf is variable, usually pointed, but sometimes slightly notched at the tip, particularly on slow-growing shoots on older trees. The cones are glaucous green with a pink or violet tinge, maturing brown, 10–20 centimeters long and 4 centimeters broad, with about 150–200 scales, each scale with a short bract (not visible on the closed cone) and two winged seeds; they disintegrate when mature to release the seeds.[2]
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Distribution
Abies numidica grows in a high-altitude Mediterranean climate at 1,800–2,004 meters (and rarely down to 1,220 meters) with an annual precipitation of 1,500–2,000 milliliters, the great majority of which falls as winter snow; the summers are warm and very dry. It is closely related to Abies pinsapo (Spanish fir), which occurs further west in the Rif mountains of Morocco and in southern Spain.[2]
Cultivation and uses
Algerian fir, Abies numidica, is occasionally grown as an ornamental tree in parks and larger gardens. It is valued among firs for its drought tolerance.[citation needed]
References
Yahi, N.; Knees, S.; Gardner, M. (2011). "Abies numidica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T30320A9534972. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T30320A9534972.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
Farjon, A. (1990). Pinaceae. Drawings and Descriptions of the Genera. Koeltz Scientific Books ISBN 3-87429-298-3.
Alizoti, P.G.; Fady, B.; Prada, M.A. & Vendramin, G.G. (2009). "Mediterranean firs- Abies Spp" (PDF). EUFORGEN Technical Guidelines for Genetic Conservation and Use. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
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