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ABIES FIR

Stem: young bark smooth, with resin blisters, mature bark generally thick, deeply furrowed; young branches appearing whorled; twig without persistent, peg-like leaf bases, glabrous or hairy; leaf scars smooth, ± round to elliptic; bud generally ± spheric, generally < 1 cm, ± resinous.
Leaf: 2–9 cm, sessile, twisted at base to be 2-ranked, often upcurved on upper twigs, generally ± flat; adaxially with 2 ± faint, longitudinal, ± white bands or not, midrib depressed or not; abaxially with 2 ± white bands or not, midrib ridge-like or not
Seed cone: erect, < 23 cm, maturing 1st yr; stalk generally 0; bracts, scales deciduous; bract included or exserted, ± free from scale; axis persistent on stem, ultimately falling.
Seed: with obvious resin deposits on surface; wing < 2.5 cm.
2n=24.
39 species: n hemisphere. (Latin: silver fir) [Xiang et al. 2009 Taxon 58:141–152]
Unabridged references: [Vasek 1985 Madroño 32:65–77]

Key to Abies

1. Lf tip spine-like; bud 1–2.5 cm; seed cone bract exserted 1.5–4.5 cm ..... A. bracteata

1' Lf tip notched, blunt, or acute; bud < 1 cm; seed cone bract included or exserted < 1 cm

2. Lf adaxially without ± white bands

3. Twig leaves 2-ranked, alternating shorter and longer on each side ..... A. grandis

3' Twig leaves not 2-ranked, often crowded on upper side, ± equal throughout

4. Lf < 3 cm, dark green; bark ash-gray; twig ± hairy; KR ..... A. amabilis

4' Lf 3–9 cm, blue-green; bark white-gray in youth, gray-brown to ± black in age; twig glabrous; KR, NCoR, CaRH, SNH, Teh, TR, PR, MP, n SNE, DMtns ..... A. concolor

2' Lf adaxially with ± white bands

5. Lf ± flat; seed cone bract included ..... A. lasiocarpa var. lasiocarpa

5' Lf ± 3- or 4-angled (± flat on coneless twigs or not); seed cone bract including or exserted

6. Seed cone bracts included ..... A. magnifica var. magnifica

6' Seed cone bracts exserted

7. Seed cone bract awns < bract body ..... A. magnifica var. shastensis

7' Seed cone bract awns > bract body ..... A. procera

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