Pinus wangii

Pinus wangii, commonly known as the Guangdong white pine (Chinese: 毛枝五针松), is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.

Pinus wangii
Pinus wangii in the Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Pinus
Subgenus:	P. subg. Strobus
Section:	P. sect. Quinquefoliae
Subsection:	P. subsect. Strobus
Species:	P. wangii
Binomial name
Pinus wangii Hu & Cheng

Distribution

This pine tree is native to Yunnan Province of southern China, where two populations are known from Wenshan Prefecture.[2] It is uncertain whether it occurs in northern Vietnam.[3]

Pinus wangii is an IUCN Red List Endangered species, threatened by continued logging.[1] It is under second-class national protection in China.[4]

References

1. Conifer Specialist Group (1998). "Pinus wangii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998. Retrieved 18 April 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
2. Liguo Fu; Nan Li; Thomas S. Elias & Robert R. Mill. "Pinus wangii". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
3. Luu, Nguyen Duc To; Philip Ian Thomas (2004). Conifers of Vietnam. pp. 49–50. ISBN 1-872291-64-3.
4. "National key protected wild plants (first batch)". Nature Reserve of China. 2004-07-10. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.