Pinus wangii

Pinus wangii, commonly known as the Guangdong white pine (Chinese: 毛枝五针松), is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.

Pinus wangii
Pinus wangii in the Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Pinus
Subgenus:	P. subg. Strobus
Section:	P. sect. Quinquefoliae
Subsection:	P. subsect. Strobus
Species:	P. wangii
Binomial name
Pinus wangii Hu & Cheng

It was named after Dr. Shao-Ping Wang,^[2] a professor of forest genetics.^[3]

Distribution

This pine tree is native to Yunnan Province of southern China, where two populations are known from Wenshan Prefecture.^[4] It is uncertain whether it occurs in northern Vietnam.^[5]

Pinus wangii is an IUCN Red List Endangered species, threatened by continued logging.^[1] It is under second-class national protection in China.^[6]