• Scientific Name: Abies beshanzuensis M.H.Wu
• Ref: Acta Phytotax. Sin. 14(2):16. 1976
• Synonyms: Abies fabri subsp. beshanzuensis (M.H.Wu) Silba; Abies fabri var. beshanzuensis (M.H.Wu) Silba
• English Common Name: Baishanzu fir, Baishan fir
• Chinese Common Name: 百山祖冷杉 Bǎishānzǔ lěngshān
• Family: Pinaceae
• Genus: Abies
• Distribution: About 1700 m. SW Zhejiang (Qingyuan: Baishanzu Shan)
• Photo: 04/29/2008, Baishanzu, Zhejiang

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 60 cm d.b.h.; bark pale gray, irregularly scaly; branchlets initially light yellow or brown-yellow, sometimes turning gray-black in 3rd or 4th year, glabrous or puberulent; winter buds ovoid to conical, resinous. Leaves spirally arranged, ascending on upper side of main branchlets, pectinately arranged in 2 lateral sets on lower side and on lateral branchlets, linear, unequal, (1-)1.5-3.5(-4.2) cm × 2.5-3.5 mm, stomatal lines in 2 white bands abaxially, resin canals 2, marginal, apex emarginate. Seed cones green or green-yellow, becoming brown-yellow, green-brown, or dark brown at maturity, ellipsoid-cylindric or cylindric, 7-12 × 3.5- 4.5 cm. Seed scales at middle of cones flabellate-trapeziform, rarely reniform-trapeziform, 1.8-2.5 × 2.5-3.3 cm, base auriculate, margin erose-denticulate laterally. Bracts constricted at middle, distal part spatulate, orbicular, or truncate, apex cuspidate, cusp exserted, reflexed, acute, small. Seeds obtriangular, 1.3-2.4 cm including broadly dolabriform wing. Pollination May, seed maturity Oct-Nov. (Flora of China)