Picea linzhiensis (W.C. Cheng & L.K. Fu) Rushforth

Tree to 50 m, but usually only 30–40 m, to 2 m dbh in old trees but usually 0.6 m. Bark silvery grey, with thin brownish fissures. Crown columnar. Branchlets light brown or slightly orange-brown in first year, becoming greyish in second to fourth years, with dark brown glandular hairs (0.2 mm) in first year, pulvini 1 mm, glandular-hairy; vegetative buds ovoid-conical, bluntly pointed to pointed, resinous at the base with thinly resinous or non-resinous chestnut-brown scales, to 0.9 cm, persistent at the base of the first-year shoot. Foliage spreading above at c.30° to the shoot and at the sides of the shoot at 60–80°, widely parted below, leaves <2(–3) × 0.1–0.15 cm, longest in mid-portion of shoot, nearly parallelsided, tapering gently to the tip, which is short-acuminate, bony, needle-sharp, of nearly 1 mm; stomata on the lower surface only (or very rarely, one or two incomplete rows above), in two greyish green bands of four to six rows, upper surface glossy green. Cones 5–12 cm, purplish, ripening to brown. Scales free but appressed at the tip during the growing season, thin, flexible, rounded or rhombic, erose. Seeds dark brown, 4 × 2.5 mm, wings pale brown, 5 × 4 mm. Rushforth 2008. Distribution CHINA: southeast Xizang. Habitat Subalpine forest between 3000 and 3800 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 6. Conservation status Not evaluated.