Vasilis Teodoridis:
Pinaceae | Pseudotsuga
1. Pseudotsuga forrestii Craib; Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 11: 189. 1919.
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Pseudotsuga sinensis Dode var. forrestii (Craib) Silba.
Trees to 40 m tall; trunk to 80 cm d.b.h.; bark dark brown-gray; rough; deeply fissured longitudinally; branchlets initially pale yellow or greenish yellow; becoming reddish brown when dry; light brown or brownish gray in 2nd or 3rd year; glabrous or pubescent. Leaves pectinately arranged; subsessile; linear; 2.8-5.5 cm x 1.3-1.8(-2) mm; base cuneate; apex emarginate. Seed cones ovoid; 5-8 x 4-5.5 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones suborbicular or rhombic-orbicular; (2.5-)2.7-3.5 x 3-3.6 (-4) cm; glabrous abaxially; base cuneate-orbicular. Bracts obviously longer than seed scales; reflexed; cusp lanceolate; 6-12 mm; lateral lobes narrowly triangular; ca. 3 mm. Seeds light brown; irregularly dark spotted; triangular-ovoid; slightly depressed; glabrous adaxially; wing obliquely ovate. Seed maturity Oct.
* Mountains; 2400-3300 m. Yunnan