POLYMORPHISM OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBGENUS PICEA (PINACEAE) IN THE EASTERN REGIONS OF HABITATION
O.N. Potemkin1, A.V. Rudikovskiy2, O.V. Potemkina1
1Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, SB RAS, 664033, Irkutsk, Lermontova str., 132
prod@sifi br.irk.ru
2Central Siberian Botanical Garden, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya str., 101
1964o@mail.ru
Keywords: subgenus Picea, Picea obovata, P. koraiensis, рopulation, polymorphism
Abstract
On the mainland of Asian Russia the subgenus Picea is represented by two closely related species: P. obovata and
P. koraiensis. Due to morphological similarity between them and uncertainty of the area limits of P. koraiensis in the
Russian Far East, some researchers doubt its species independence. Th e paper deals with polymorphism of the main
morphological characteristics on the base of which spruces of the subgenus Picea growing in the Russian Far Eastern
regions are identifi ed as P. koraiensis. Assumptions of their species independence have been made.
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