Abies cilicica: Difference between revisions

| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{IUCN2013.2|cite assessoriucn |author=Gardner, M.| assessor2|author2=Knees, S.| last-assessor-amp=yes| yeardate=2013| id=42275 | title=''Abies cilicica'' |volume=2013 downloaded|page=e.T42275A2968944 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42275A2968944.en |access-date=215 MayNovember 20142021}}</ref>

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'''''Abies cilicica''''', commonlyalso known as '''Cilician fir'''<ref name=BSBI07>{{cite web |title=BSBI List 2007 |publisher=Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland |url=http://www.bsbi.org.uk/BSBIList2007.xls |format=xls |accessdateaccess-date=2014-10-17}}</ref> or '''Taurus fir''', is a species of [[conifer]] in the family [[Pinaceae]] family. It is found in [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], and [[Turkey]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alizoti, |first1=P.G., |last2=Fady, |first2=B., |last3=Prada, |first3=M.A. & |last4=Vendramin, |first4=G.G|title=Mediterranean firs - ''Abies spp.''|journal=[[EUFORGEN]] Technical guidelinesGuidelines for conservationConservation and useUse|url=http://www.euforgen.org/fileadmin/templates/euforgen.org/upload/Publications/Technical_guidelines/1507_Mediterranen_firs_Abies_spp.pdf|access-date=2016-10-18|archive-date=2016-10-20|df=dmy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020035525/http://www.euforgen.org/fileadmin//templates/euforgen.org/upload/Publications/Technical_guidelines/1507_Mediterranen_firs_Abies_spp.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Abies cilicica'' and ''[[Cedrus libani]]'', together with ''[[Acer hyrcanum]]|''Acer hyrcanum'' subsp. ''Tauricolumtauricolum'']] and ''[[Sorbus torminalis]]|''Sorbus torminalis'' subsp. ''Orientalisorientalis'']], are the predominant trees in the [[phytocoenosis]] Abeti-Cedrion, forestsa type of forest of the Middlemiddle and Easterneastern [[Taurus Mountains]] of [[Turkey]]. These forests occur between 800 and 21002,100 meters elevation. Over 50005,000 years of logging, burning, and grazing have reduced these forests to enclaves.<ref>Boydak, M. "Reforestation of Lebanon cedar (''Cedrus libani'' A. Rich.) in bare karstic lands by broadcast seeding in Turkey." In : Leone V. (ed.), Lovreglio R. (ed.). ''Proceedings of the international workshop MEDPINE 3: conservation, regeneration and restoration of Mediterranean pines and their ecosystems.'' Bari : CIHEAM, 2007. p. 33-42 (Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens; n. 75)</ref>

In 2009 at [[Berenice Troglodytica]], the Egypto-Roman port on the [[Red Sea]], archaeologists found: "two blocks of resin from the Syrian fir tree (''Abies cilicica''), one weighing about 190 g and the other about 339 g, recovered from 1st-century AD contexts in one of the harborharbour trenches. Produced in areas of greater Syria and Asia Minor, this resin and its oil derivative were used in mummification, as an antiseptic, a [[diuretic]], to treat wrinkles, extract worms and promote hair growth."<ref>[http://www.centrumarcheologii.uw.edu.pl/index.php?id=253&L=0 Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego] {{dead link|date=December 2022}}</ref>

Abies cilicica in Ehden cedar reserve.jpg|''Abies cilicica'' in Ehdenthe cedar[[Horsh Ehden]] reserve, Lebanon

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929190239/http://conifersaroundtheworld.com/blog/abies_cilicica_cilician_fir Conifers Around the World: ''Abies cilicica - Cilician Fir''].

* [http://www.euforgen.org/species/abies-cilicica/ ''Abies cilicica'']. Distribution map, genetic conservation units and related resources. [[European Forest Genetic Resources Programme]] (EUFORGEN)

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