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Picea koyamae - Wikipedia

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Picea koyamae

Cultivated Specimen Morton Arboretum accession 126-65-1
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Picea
Species:	P. koyamae
Binomial name
*Picea koyamae* Shiras.

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Picea koyamae (Koyama's spruce; Japanese: ヤツガタケトウヒ or やつがたけとうひ yatsugatake-touhi) is a rare spruce, endemic to the Akaishi Mountains and Yatsugatake Mountains in central Honshu, Japan. It is an evergreen tree growing to 25 m (82 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to a metre. It grows in small isolated stands in a limited area and the total area of occupation is less than 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi). Trees that are lost to typhoons are normally replaced with other faster-growing species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the tree as being "critically endangered". Some trees are in cultivation for their ornamentality.

Description

It is a monoecious evergreen tree growing to 25 m tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. The shoots are orange-brown, with scattered pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 8–16 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark bluish-green with conspicuous stomatal lines. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4–9 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5–7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales 6–18 mm long and 6–12 mm wide. Pollination takes place in late spring.^[2]^[3]

Distribution

Koyama's spruce is native to the Akaishi Mountains and Yatsugatake Mountains, or Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures in central Honshū, Japan, where it grows at 1500–2000 m altitude.^[2] It is found growing in groups of 10–20, with a total population of only about 250 mature trees. The main cause of decline is the loss of natural regeneration after typhoons, with windblown trees being replaced by the planting of other faster-growing commercially valuable species. Other threats include wildfires, landslides and changes in temperature and precipitation associated with climate change. There is little genetic exchange between different fragmentary locations where it grows, and the total area of occupation by this tree is less than 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi).^[1]^[2]

The tree is named after the Japanese botanist Mitsua Koyama. The name was first published as "koyamai", but this is an orthographical error to be corrected under the provisions of ICBN Article 60.^[4]

It is occasionally planted as an ornamental tree. The wood is similar to that of other spruces, but the species is too rare to be of economic value.

Recently dead specimen in the Arboretum de Chèvreloup, France
Young shoot, Arboretum in Rogów, Poland
Immature cones

References

^ ^a ^b Katsuki, T. & Gardner, M. (2011). "Picea koyamae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. IUCN: e.T31290A9616484. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T31290A9616484.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Farjon, A. (1990). Pinaceae. Drawings and Descriptions of the Genera. Koeltz Scientific Books ISBN 3-87429-298-3.
^ Gymnosperm Database: Picea koyamae
^ Farjon, A. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1-900347-54-7.

Taxon identifiers
Picea koyamae	Wikidata: Q391374 Wikispecies: Picea koyamae ARKive: picea-koyamae CoL: 4HQ3C EoL: 126877 EPPO: PIEKO GBIF: 5284870 GRIN: 28301 iNaturalist: 135735 IPNI: 676964-1 IUCN: 31290 NCBI: 130208 NZOR: 84d5f9b0-a8ee-403c-be62-a8a1238d20b9 Open Tree of Life: 1040417 PPE: picea-koyamae Plant List: kew-2563354 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:676963-1 Tropicos: 24900678 WFO: wfo-0000482423

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