Abies firmaSiebold & Zucc.

Momi FirMomi fir

WFO wfo-0000511154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abies firma, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-13 / obs. 92341415
Abies firma, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59100335
Abies firma, photographed by harum.koh
fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 47792165
Abies firma, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32208834
Abies firma, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18487167
Abies firma, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17488581
Abies firma, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14751261
Abies firma, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10193996

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Abies firma is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Abies firma, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 13 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 bifida Siebold & Zucc.
  • Abies firma var. bifida (Siebold & Zucc.) Mast.
  • Abies firma var. momi (Siebold) Mast.
  • Abies momi Siebold ex K.Koch
  • Abies momi Siebold
  • Picea firma (Siebold & Zucc.) Mast.
  • Picea firma (Siebold & Zucc.) Sieber ex Gordon
  • Picea thunbergii (Lindl.) Koehne
  • Picea webbiana Gordon
  • Pinus bifida (Siebold & Zucc.) Antoine
  • Pinus firma (Siebold & Zucc.) Antoine
  • Pinus firma var. incisa Endl.
  • Pinus momi (Siebold) Voss

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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