Abies cephalonica (Greek Fir)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abies cephalonica, photographed by Thor-Rune Hansen — fig. a Thor-Rune Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-06 / obs. 155593232

Abies cephalonica, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. b Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82850331

Abies cephalonica, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak — fig. c Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54878150

Abies cephalonica, photographed by Donald Davesne — fig. d Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76506894

Abies cephalonica, photographed by Andrew Thomas — fig. e Andrew Thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109668722

Abies cephalonica, photographed by pavlaki1968 — fig. f pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166417273

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Abies cephalonica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Greece	GRC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 36 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Abies acicularis Maxim. ex Lavallée
Abies alba subsp. cephalonica (Loudon) K.Richt.
Abies alba var. cephalonica (Loudon) Richt.
Abies apollinis Link
Abies apollinis var. panachaica (Heldr.) Boiss.
Abies apollinis var. reginae-amaliae (Heldr.) Boiss.
Abies cephalonica f. pseudocilicica Guin. & Maire
Abies cephalonica subsp. apollinis (Link) Silba
Abies cephalonica subsp. peloponnesiaca (Haage ex K.Koch) Silba
Abies cephalonica var. apollinis (Link) Beissn.
Abies cephalonica var. appolinis (Link) Beissn.
Abies cephalonica var. arcadica Henkel & W.Hochst.
Abies cephalonica var. heterophylla K.Koch
Abies cephalonica var. parnassica Henkel & W.Hochst.
Abies cephalonica var. peloponnesiaca (Haage ex K.Koch) R.Vig. & Gaussen
Abies cephalonica var. reginae-amaliae (Heldr.) Beissn.
Abies cephalonica var. submutica Bailly
Abies heterophylla K.Koch
Abies luscombeana Loudon
Abies panachaica Heldr.
Abies peloponnesiaca Haage ex K.Koch
Abies peloponnesica Haage ex Heldr.
Abies picea var. apollinis (Link) Lindl. & Gordon
Abies reginae-amaliae Heldr.

and 12 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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