Tsuga forrestii

{{Short description|Species of conifer}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Yang, Y. |author2=Luscombe, D |date=2013 |title=Tsuga forrestii |volume=2013 |page=e.T32457A2819347 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T32457A2819347.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Tsuga

| species = forrestii

| authority = Downie

| synonyms = Tsuga chinensis var. forrestii (Downie) Silba

}}

Tsuga forrestii is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is considered as a variety of Tsuga chinensis (i.e., T. c. var. forrestii) by some.{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=210002248 |title=Tsuga chinensis var. forrestii |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=17 March 2013}} It grows in mixed forests in mountains and valleys of northeast Guizhou, southwest Sichuan, and northwest Yunnan, at altitudes of {{convert|2000|-|3000|m|abbr=on}}.

While not a target species, Tsuga forrestii is threatened by clear-cutting of mixed forests.

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