Common Names
Sacred fir; oyamel, pinabete [Spanish] ().Taxonomic notes
Sun: Pinus religiosa H.B.K.; Abies hirtella Lindl.; A. religiosa hirtella (H.B.K.) Carrière; A. religiosa var. glaucescens (Gord.) Carrière (1).Rushforth (2) has found a similar population on Nevada de Colima in western Jalisco. The newly described trees are related to A. religiosa, but he has described them as a new species, A. colimensis Rushforth. I do not know if this taxon has yet won wide acceptance.
Description
See (1).Range
Mexico: C Michoacán to Veracruz with isolated populations to the N in S Nuevo León, W Tamaulipas, S Chihuahua, Sinaloa, San Luis Potosí and Jalisco, and to the S in Guerrero, Oaxaca; W Guatemala (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Stands of Abies religiosa provide winter habitat for the Monarch butterfly. These stands are being depleted by logging, threatening the continued survival of the butterfly.Citations
(1) Farjon 1990.(2) Rushforth 1989.
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 18-Jan-1999