Pinus wangii
{{Short description|Species of conifer}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Pinus wangii - Kunming Botanical Garden - DSC02739.jpg
| image_caption = Pinus wangii in the Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| display_parents = 3
| genus = Pinus
| parent = Pinus subsect. Strobus
| species = wangii
| authority = Hu & Cheng
| synonyms =
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Pinus wangii, commonly known as the Guangdong white pine ({{zh|c=毛枝五针松}}), is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.
It was named after Dr. Shao-Ping Wang,{{cite web |title=Pinus wangii / Guangdong white pine {{!}} Conifer Species |url=https://conifersociety.org/conifers/pinus-wangii/ |website=American Conifer Society |access-date=3 April 2021 |language=en}} a professor of forest genetics.Johanna Buchert Smith {{google books|HR-6DQAAQBAJ|The Story Garden: Cultivating Plants to Nurture Memories|pg=186}}
Distribution
This pine tree is native to Yunnan Province of southern China, where two populations are known from Wenshan Prefecture.{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005371 |title=Pinus wangii |author=Liguo Fu |author2= Nan Li |author3=Thomas S. Elias |author4=Robert R. Mill |name-list-style=amp |work=Flora of China |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA |access-date=18 April 2012}} It is uncertain whether it occurs in northern Vietnam.{{Cite book
| isbn = 1-872291-64-3
| last = Luu
| first = Nguyen Duc To
|author2=Philip Ian Thomas
| title = Conifers of Vietnam
| year = 2004
| url = http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/bm/conifer_manual.html
| pages = 49–50
| publisher = Nhà xuất bản Thế giới
}}
Pinus wangii is an IUCN Red List Endangered species, threatened by continued logging. It is under second-class national protection in China.{{cite web |url=http://www.nre.cn/htm/04/bhqsj/2004-07-10-12808.htm |title=National key protected wild plants (first batch) |date=2004-07-10 |publisher=Nature Reserve of China |access-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413223605/http://www.nre.cn/htm/04/bhqsj/2004-07-10-12808.htm |archive-date=13 April 2012 }}
References
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Category:Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Category:Endangered flora of Asia
Category:Species that are or were threatened by logging
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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