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Abies durangensis

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Abies religiosa

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Hesperocyparis lusitanica

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Juniperus deppeana

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Pinus contorta var. murrayana

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Pinus hartwegii

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Pinus monophylla

 

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Conifers of Mexico

Mexico has one of the most diverse coniferous floras in the world, with 88 taxa addressed hereunder. Only two nations, China and the United States, encompass greater species diversity; both have a much larger land area. Reviews of the taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity and uses of the conifers of Mexico are provided by the FAO (1960) (which is somewhat dated) and by Gernandt and Pérez de la Rosa (2014). This list has been structured to discriminate taxa that the most recent molecular work has indicated warrant distinction at species rank. See the taxa pages linked below for further information.

The following list ranks the Mexican states by the size of their conifer flora, with the number of species shown in parentheses: Jalisco (31 species); Durango (30 species); Nuevo León (29 species); Chihuahua (27 species); Coahuila and Oaxaca (26 species); Puebla and Veracruz (25 species); Hidalgo (24 species); Michoacán (22 species); Chiapas, Guerrero, and México (21 species); Sonora (20 species); Tamaulipas (19 species); San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas (18 species); Sinaloa (16 species); Baja California and Morelos (15 species); Querétaro (14 species); Nayarit (12 species); Distrito Federal (11 species); Aguascalientes (8 species); Guanajuato (7 species); Colima (6 species); Quintana Roo and Yucatan (2 species); Baja California Sur and Tabasco (1 species).

Species List

Species

Distribution in Mexico

Abies concolor

Baja California and Sonora

Abies durangensis

Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit, Nuevo León, and Sinaloa

Abies guatemalensis

Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas

Abies hickeli

Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz

Abies religiosa

Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Abies vejarii

Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas

Calocedrus decurrens

Baja California

Hesperocyparis forbesii

Baja California

Hesperocyparis guadalupensis

Baja California

Hesperocyparis montana

Baja California

Hesperocyparis revealiana

Baja California

Hesperocyparis benthamii

Chiapas, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Yucatan

Hesperocyparis lusitanica var. lusitanica

Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, and Zacatecas

Juniperus angosturana

Coahuila, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas

Juniperus ashei

Coahuila

Juniperus blancoi

Chihuaua, Durango, and Sonora

Juniperus californica

Baja California

Juniperus coahuilensis

Coahuila

Juniperus comitana

Chiapas and Hidalgo

Juniperus deppeana

Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Juniperus durangensis

Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Sonora, and Zacatecas

Juniperus flaccida

Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Juniperus jaliscana

Durango and Jalisco

Juniperus monosperma

Sonora and Chihuahua

Juniperus monticola

Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Jalisco, México, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Juniperus pinchotii

Coahuila and Nuevo León

Juniperus saltillensis

Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Zacatecas

Juniperus standleyi

Chiapas

Picea chihuahuana

Chihuahua and Durango

Picea engelmannii
ssp. mexicana

Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León

Picea martinezii

Nuevo León

Pinus arizonica

Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Tamaulipas

Pinus ayacahuite

Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus brachyptera

Sonora

Pinus californiarum

Baja California

Pinus caribaea

Quintana Roo

Pinus cembroides (ssp. cembroides, var. cembroides)

Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Pinus chiapensis

Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz

Pinus contorta
ssp. murrayana

Baja California

Pinus cooperi

Chihuahua and Durango

Pinus coulteri

Baja California

Pinus culminicola

Coahuila and Nuevo León

Pinus devoniana

Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Pinus discolor

Chihuahua, Durango, and Sonora

Pinus douglasiana

Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, and Sinaloa

Pinus durangensis

Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Michoacán, Sonora, and Zacatecas

Pinus edulis

Chihuahua

Pinus engelmannii

Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Zacatecas

Pinus georginae

Jalisco

Pinus greggii var. greggii

Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, and Puebla

Pinus greggii var. australis

Hidalgo, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis, Potosí, and Veracruz

Pinus hartwegii

Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus herrerae

Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and Sinaloa

Pinus jaliscana

Jalisco

Pinus jeffreyi

Baja California

Pinus johannis

Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Zacatecas

Pinus lagunae

Baja California Sur

Pinus lambertiana

Baja California

Pinus lawsonii

Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, and Puebla

Pinus leiophylla

Chihuahua, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Oaxaca, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Pinus lumholtzii

Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Zacatecas

Pinus luzmariae

Durango and Jalisco; but see the species page for notes on a possible wider distribution.

Pinus maximartinezii

Durango and Zacatecas

Pinus maximinoi

Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus montezumae

Chiapas, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus muricata

Baja California

Pinus nelsonii

Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, and Tamalipas

Pinus oocarpa

Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Pinus patula

Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Hidalgo, México, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus pinceana

Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas

Pinus praetermissa

Jalisco, Nayarit, and Sinaloa

Pinus pringlei

Guerrero, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, and Puebla

Pinus pseudostrobus (not var. apulcensis)

Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz

Pinus pseudostrobus var. apulcensis (= P. oaxacana)

Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, México, Oaxaca, and Veracruz

Pinus quadrifolia

Baja California

Pinus radiata
var. binata

Baja California

Pinus remota

Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León

Pinus rzedowskii

Michoacán

Pinus stormiae

Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas

Pinus strobiformis

Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Pinus stylesii

Nuevo León

Pinus tecunumanii

Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca

Pinus teocote

Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Pinus vallartensis

Jalisco

Pinus yecorensis

Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora

Podocarpus matudae

Chiapas, Jalisco, Puebla, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz

Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. glauca

Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Sonora, and Zacatecas

Taxodium mucronatum

Chiapas,Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas

Taxus globosa

Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz

Citations

Gernandt, David S., and Jorge A. Pérez-de la Rosa. 2014. Biodiversidad de Pinophyta (Coníferas) En México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.32195.

See also

Mejorado, Norberto Sanchez and Louis Huguet. 1959. Conifers of Mexico. Unasylva 13(1). Available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5390e/x5390e04.htm, accessed 2007.08.31.

Last Modified 2024-09-29