Picea purpurea explained
Picea purpurea, also known as purple cone spruce and purple-coned spruce is a species of spruce found only in China. It is likely to be a hybrid species produced by crosses between Picea likiangensis and Picea wilsonii,[1] or possibly involving other species.[2]
Notes and References
- Yongshuai Sun . Richard J. Abbott . Lili Li . Long Li . Jiabin Zou . Jianquan Liu . amp . 2014 . Evolutionary history of Purple cone spruce (Picea purpurea) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: homoploid hybrid origin and Pleistocene expansion . . 23 . 2 . 343–359 . 10.1111/mec.12599. 26010556 . 5153568 . free . 2014MolEc..23..343S .
- Yuan Li . Michael Stocks . Sofia Hemmilä . Thomas Källman . Hongtao Zhu . Yongfeng Zhou . Jun Chen . Jianquan Liu . Martin Lascoux . amp . 2010 . Demographic histories of four spruce (Picea) species of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and neighboring areas inferred from multiple nuclear loci . . 27 . 5 . 1001–1014 . 10.1093/molbev/msp301 . 20031927. free .