Vasilis Teodoridis:
Pinaceae | Tsuga
4. Tsuga chinensis (Franchet) E. Pritzel; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 217. 1900.
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Trees to 50 m tall; trunk to 1.6 m d.b.h.; bark dark gray; longitudinally fissured; flaking; crown pyramidal; branchlets brown-yellow or grayish yellow initially; turning grayish yellow; gray; or brownish gray in 2nd or 3rd year; slender; pubescent; winter bud scales appressed or keeled at base of branchlets. Leaves pectinately arranged; linear; 1.2-2.7 cm x 2-3 mm; abaxial stomatal bands grayish green; margin entire; apex obtuse; entire or emarginate. Seed cones light green; maturing pale gray-yellow or pale brown; ovoid-globose to cylindric or obovoid-oblong; 1.5-4 x 1.2-2.5 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones densely arranged; square-orbicular; pentagonal-ovate; or compressed orbicular; 0.9-1.2 x 0.8-1.1 cm; apex rounded or nearly truncate. Bracts cuneate-obovate or obtriangular; apex erose. Seeds 7-9 mm including obliquely ovate wing. Pollination Apr; seed maturity Oct.
* Mountains; mixed forests; valleys; river basins; 1000-3500 m. Anhui; Fujian; S Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; N Guizhou; W Henan; W Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; S Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang