Biology:Pinus cubensis

From HandWiki
Short description: Species of conifer

Pinus cubensis
Tree near Baracoa, Cuba
Scientific classification edit
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Plantae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Tracheophytes
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Gymnospermae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pinophyta
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pinopsida
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pinales
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pinaceae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pinus
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: P. subg. Pinus
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: P. sect. Trifoliae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: P. subsect. Australes
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">P. cubensis
Binomial name
Pinus cubensis
Grisebach
Natural range of Pinus cubensis

Pinus cubensis, or Cuban pine, is a pine endemic to the eastern highlands of the island of Cuba, inhabiting both the Sierra Nipe-Cristal and Sierra Maestra mountain ranges.

Taxonomy

The closely related Hispaniolan pine (P. occidentalis), native to the neighboring island of Hispaniola, is treated as synonymous by some botanists. Modern systematic studies recognize P. cubensis it as a valid species,[2] nevertheless, there is disagreement about whether the Sierra Maestra populations in the south are part of P. cubensis or conform another species named P. maestrensis.[3]

The Sierra Nipe-Cristal and Sierra Maestra population may have diverged recently, as indicated by recent genetic studies that have found some ancestral genetic lineages that are shared among the two regions and only some rare variants exclusive for each region.[4]

References

  1. Farjon, A. (2013). "Pinus cubensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T42353A2974732. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42353A2974732.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42353/2974732. Retrieved 25 September 2021. 
  2. Farjon, A. 1997: Pinus (Pinaceae), Flora Neotropica, Monograph 75 (together with Brian T. Styles). New York : The New York Botanical Garden. ISBN 0-89327-411-9
  3. López-Almirall A. 1982. Variabilidad del Género Pinus (Coniferales: Pinaceae) en Cuba. Acta Botánica Cubana 12: 1–32.
  4. Jardón-Barbolla, L., Delgado-Valerio, P., Geada-López, G., Vázquez-Lobo, A., & Pinero D. (2011). Phylogeography of Pinus subsection Australes in the Caribbean Basin. Annals of Botany 107: 229-241.

Wikidata ☰ Q1790865 entry