Abies homolepisSiebold & Zucc.

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WFO wfo-0000511207 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abies homolepis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-10 / obs. 168480734
Abies homolepis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53179375
Abies homolepis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22761923
Abies homolepis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22757542
Abies homolepis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16366970
Abies homolepis, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10724772
Abies homolepis, photographed by harum.koh
fig. g harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10724867
Abies homolepis, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10694997

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Abies homolepis is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Abies homolepis, 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 25 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 brachyphylla Maxim.
  • Abies brachyphylla var. tomomi (Rehder) Dallim. & A.B.Jacks.
  • Abies brachyphylla var. umbellata (Mayr) Dallim. & A.B.Jacks.
  • Abies finhonnoskiana R.Neumann ex Parl.
  • Abies firma var. brachyphylla (Maxim.) Bertrand
  • Abies harryana W.R.McNab
  • Abies homolepis f. tomomi (Rehder) Rehder
  • Abies homolepis f. umbilicata (Mayr) Schelle
  • Abies homolepis subsp. umbellata (Mayr) Silba
  • Abies homolepis var. scottae McFarland
  • Abies homolepis var. tomomi Rehder
  • Abies tschonoskiana Regel
  • Abies umbellata Mayr
  • Abies umbilicata Mayr
  • Picea brachyphylla (Maxim.) Gordon
  • Picea homolepis (Siebold & Zucc.) Carrière
  • Picea homolepis (Siebold & Zucc.) Gordon
  • Picea pinnosa Mast.
  • Picea tschonofskiana (Regel) Mast.
  • Pinus brachyphylla (Maxim.) Parl.
  • Pinus finhonnoskiana Parl.
  • Pinus harryana (W.R.McNab) W.R.McNab
  • Pinus homolepis (Siebold & Zucc.) Antoine
  • Pinus tschonoskiana Parl.

and 1 more.

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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