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Pinus kochiana Klotzsch ex K. Koch Pinaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

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Synonyms

Pinus sylvestris var. hamata Steven

Local Names

Armenia: (sochi sovorokan); Azerbaijan: Georgia: – pich’vi, – buk’vani, – khaltsutsa, – gvgib (Svanetian), – k’at’ari (Imeretian, Acharian, Meskhetian), – p’it’o (Ertso-Tianetian), – zhinaq’i (Tushetian), – (Mokhevian) (Ketskhoveli et al. 1971–2011, Makashvili 1991); English: Koch’s pine.

Botany and Ecology

Tree or shrub. The plant has an erect or curved trunk, often 3–15 m tall. The top is very dense, with ascending branches. The bark is gray and fissured below, reddish-yellow above. The leaves are firm, thick, 3.5–5 cm long, green, often prolonged into a needle-shaped point. The male inflorescences are oblong, dense, cylindric, the scales dentate-pectinate. The cones are solitary or in pairs. In maturity the cones are brown, violet-brown or light gray. The seeds are small, ovate, or ovate-oblong, the whitish-gray wing is 2–3 times the length of the body. The plant is found in the Caucasus mountain woods of Southwest...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba Mehdiyeva & Valida Alizade

  3. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  5. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  6. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2016). Pinus kochiana Klotzsch ex K. Koch Pinaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_51-1

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