Pinaceae

Cedrus libani

Cedrus LINK Cedrus libani A. RICH Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ağaç Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: -1 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: -1 Habitat: karışık orman Minimum yükseklik: 1000 Maksimum yükseklik: 2000 Endemik: - Element: Akdeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: OK. Anadolu'nun Dışı, G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Lübnan, Kıbrıs, KB. Afrika Bulunduğu kareler:A6 B3 B6 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6

C. libani A. Rich.in Bory, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 3: 299 (1823). Syn: C. liban-itica Trew, Cedrorum Libani Hist., 4 (1757), nom. illeg.; C. libanitica subsp. stenocoma O. Schwarz in Feddes Rep. 54: 27 (1944). Map 6, p. 69. Columnar tree, taller than broad. Branches ± horizontal, the youngest sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Leaves glaucous, frequently with silvery lines, 10-40 mm, somewhat flattened, acute. Ripe cones ovoid, 6-9 cm. Dominant tree, or in mixed forest, 1000-2000 m.   Described from the Levant.   Taurus, Anti-Taurus & Amanus, with an outlier in Paphlagonia. A6 Tokat: Çatalan nr. Erbaa, Savas. B3 Afyon: Çay, Deresinek Köy, Yalt. B6 Maraş: Göksun, 1600 m, Stn. & Hend. 5547! C2 Muğla: Kara Tepe, 1500 m, D. 13818! C3 Antalya: d. Gebiz, Bozburun Da., 1600 m, D. 15504! C4 Konya: between Geyik Da. & Bozkir, 1900 m, D. 14629! C5 Seyhan: Bulgar Da. above Pozantı, 1500-1700 m, D. 16594! C6 Maraş: Maraş to Göksun, 1350 m, D. 27566! Hatay: Amanus, 1200-1900 m, Haradj. 4600!   Lebanon, Cyprus, N. W. Africa. A disjunct Medit. (mt.) element. Schwarz (Feddes Rep. 54: 26-29, 1944) has treated all the Mediterranean Cedars as subspecies of C. libani (as C. libanitica), and has described subsp. stenocoma from Lycia, suggesting that all the Turkish specimens are referable to that subspecies. We have found that most of the characters he used to distinguish subsp. libani and stenocoma are not well correlated, and that the two taxa can hardly be maintained as distinct. The habit of the tree (columnar in Turkey, broader than tall in the Lebanon), appears to be consistent, but cannot be used in herbarium material. Davis (J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 74: f. 39 & 40, 1949) has given photographs of the Turkish Cedar, and tells us that all the specimens seen by him in the Taurus approximate to the habit there shown. Two other subspecies are frequently recognised, subsp. brevifolia from Cyprus, and subsp. atlantica from N.W. Africa.