Tsuga dumosa(D.Don) Eichler

Himalayan Hemlock

WFO wfo-0000456385 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-05-04 / obs. 65717684
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. b Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6595621
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Matt Scott
fig. c Matt Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60100571
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61061272
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Matt Scott
fig. e Matt Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60104641
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61061302
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65717782
Tsuga dumosa, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. h Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6595721

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Tsuga dumosa is native: China South-Central, Tibet, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, West Himalaya China South-CentralTibetEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Tsuga dumosa, 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
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT

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 brunoniana Lindl.
  • Abies brunoniana Griff.
  • Abies cedroides Griff. ex Carrière
  • Abies decidua Wall. ex K.Koch
  • Abies dumosa (D.Don) Mirb.
  • Abies dumosa Loudon
  • Abies yunnanensis Franch.
  • Micropeuce brunoniana Carrière
  • Picea brunoniana Spach ex Gordon
  • Pinus brunoniana Wall.
  • Pinus decidua Wall. ex Carrière
  • Pinus dumosa D.Don
  • Tsuga brunoniana (Wall.) Carrière
  • Tsuga calcarea Downie
  • Tsuga chinensis subsp. wardii (Downie) A.E.Murray
  • Tsuga dumosa subsp. leptophylla (Hand.-Mazz.) A.E.Murray
  • Tsuga dumosa subsp. yunnanensis (Franch.) Silba
  • Tsuga dumosa var. yunnanensis (Franch.) Silba
  • Tsuga dura Downie
  • Tsuga intermedia Hand.-Mazz.
  • Tsuga leptophylla Hand.-Mazz.
  • Tsuga wardii Downie
  • Tsuga yunnanensis (Franch.) Mast.
  • Tsuga yunnanensis (Franch.) E.Pritz.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.