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Abies nordmanniana (Steven) Spach Pinaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

Synonyms

Picea nordmanniana (Steven) Loudon; Pinus leioclada Steven; Pinus nordmanniana Steven

Local Names

Georgia: – k’avk’asiuri soch’i, – soch’i, – nordmanis soch’i, – nenz (Svanetian), - t’akhra (Svanetian), – tshishkh (Svanetian), – chikhri (Mthiuletian, Rachian) (Makashvili 1991; Ketskhoveli et al. 1971–2011); English: Nordmanns Fir

Botany and Ecology

A strong, outstandlingly beautiful tree, up to 50 m tall and 1.5 m in diameter; top pyramidal, becoming slim, almost cylindric (except the summit). Bark gray, firm, with shallow fissures. Young branches reddish, with rufous pubescence, rarely glabrous, buds scantily resinous, dry; leaves 2–3.5 cm long, round tipped, very densely covering the branchlet. Cones solitary at the ends of the upper branches, oblong-cylindrical, brown, 12–15 cm long. Seeds yellowish, broadly winged. Evergreen trees; bark of young trees smooth, light gray, with planiconvex vesicles containing liquid resin in older trees wrinkled with longitudinal fissures;...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  3. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  4. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Abies nordmanniana (Steven) Spach Pinaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_20

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