Platanus wrightii
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Platanaceae |
| Genus: | Platanus |
| Species: | P. wrightii |
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| Platanus wrightii S.Watson | |
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Platanus wrightii, the Arizona sycamore, also in Spanish Álamo,[3] is a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico with its range extending south into the Mexican states of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa.[4]
The tree is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 70 ft (21 m).
Distribution
The Arizona sycamore is a tree of central Arizona's transition zone in the Mogollon Rim–White Mountains. The range extends into southwest New Mexico and parts of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa in Mexico.[5] In Arizona the range extends south towards northern Sonora. The range in southeast Arizona is a northeasterly part of the Sonoran Desert, and is at the northern region of the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera.
Arizona sycamore is prevalent in riparian areas of the Madrean Sky Islands, mountain sky islands in southeast Arizona, extreme southwest, Bootheel region of New Mexico and along the San Francisco River in Western New Mexico, northeastern Sonora, and extreme northwest Chihuahua).[6] The species is more prevalent west of the Madrean Sky Islands region, still in the central and northeast Sonoran Desert, an area around the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at the Arizona-Sonora border, with the species range extending in Sonora in the Occidentals, or its western foothills. Scattered reports have been made farther east in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Colorado Desert mistletoe on host tree Platanus wrightii
bark
Notes
- ↑ Tropicos
- ↑ The Plant List
- ↑ Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower database
- ↑ Laferriere, J.E. Platanaceae, Sycamore or Plane Tree Family. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 26: 238. 1992
- ↑ Little. Atlas of United States Trees, Volume 3, Minor Western Hardwoods, Map 113, Platanus wrightii
- ↑ Little, Map 113, Platanus wrightii
References
- Little. Atlas of United States Trees, Volume 3, Minor Western Hardwoods, Little, Elbert L, 1976, US Government Printing Office. Library of Congress No. 79-653298. Map 113, Platanus wrightii.
External links
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Media related to Platanus wrightii at Wikimedia Commons - "Platanus wrightii". Flora of North America (FNA). Missouri Botanical Garden – via eFloras.org.; Distribution Map
- Jepson Manual Treatment
- Lady Bird Johnson database, w/ gallery
- Platanus wrightii in the CalPhotos Photo Database, University of California, Berkeley