Keteleeria
All three genera share the unusual feature of male cones produced in umbels of several together from a single bud, and also in their ability, very rare in the Pinaceae, of being able to coppice.The genus is found in southern China (from Shaanxi south to Guangdong and Yunnan), Hainan, Taiwan, northern Laos, and Vietnam.[4] K. davidiana (Bertrand) Beissner K. evelyniana Masters (Evelyn keteleeria) K. fortunei (Murray 1862) Carrière The World Checklist maintained by Kew Botanical Garden accepts the following:[3] moved to Abies The earliest record of the genus is from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian -Aptian ~120 million years ago) of China.[8] Fossil pollen of Keteleeria caucasica have been recovered from strata of the Late Miocene in Georgia in the Caucasus region.[11] Named species based on cones, leaves, pollen, seeds, and wood have been described from Cretaceous through Pliocene sediments in Europe, North America and Asia.
PreꞒScientific classificationPlantaeTracheophytesGymnospermaePinophytaPinopsidaPinalesPinaceaeAbietoideaeCarrièreType speciesKeteleeria fortuneiconiferousFrenchNothotsugaPseudolarixevergreenleavesumbelscoppiceShaanxiGuangdongYunnanHainanTaiwanVietnamLatah FormationSpokane, WashingtonK. davidianaK. evelynianaK. fortuneiWorld ChecklistKew Botanical GardenKeteleeria davidianaKeteleeria evelynianaSichuanMioceneWashingtonAbies fabriBarremianAptianFossil pollenstrataLate MioceneGeorgiaCaucasusPleistocenePortugalColdwater BedsEarly EoceneOkanagan HighlandsCretaceousPlioceneYoshiokaMabechi RiverTaganrog peninsulaOligocenePrambachkirchenMainz-KastelTokitsuR.N. Lakh.Shanwang FormationFlora of ChinabioRxivGeorgian National MuseumTbilisiBibcodeArchaeplastidaPlantae s.l.DomainDiaphoretickesAmorpheaPicozoaPicomonasRhodelphidiaRhodelphisRhodophytaCyanidiophyceaeProteorhodophytinaPorphyridiophyceaeStylonematophyceaeCompsopogonophyceaeRhodellophyceaeEurhodophytinaBangiophyceaeFlorideophyceaeGlaucophytaGlaucocystophyceaeAlgospongiaViridiplantaePlantae s.s.green algaePrasinodermophytaPrasinodermophyceaePalmophyllophyceaeChlorophytaMamiellophyceaePyramimonadophyceaeNephroselmidophyceaePicocystophyceaeChloropicophyceaePedinophyceaeChlorodendrophyceaeUTC cladeUlvophyceaeTrebouxiophyceaeChlorophyceaeStreptophytaMesostigmatophyceaeChlorokybophyceaeSpirotaeniaKlebsormidiophyceaePhragmoplastophytaCharophyceaeColeochaetophyceaeZygnematophyceaeEmbryophytaEmbryophytesPlantae sensu strictissimoBryophytesMarchantiophytaHaplomitriopsidaMarchantiopsidaJungermanniopsidaAnthocerotophyta