Platanus wrightii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Platanaceae |
| Genus: | Platanus |
| Species: | P. wrightii
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Platanus wrightii, the Arizona sycamore,[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 82 ft (25 m).[5]
Distribution
[edit]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.[6] 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.
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Notes
[edit]- ^ "Platanus wrightii". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- ^ "Platanus wrightii". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
- ^ "Platanus wrightii". Native Plant Database. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas at Austin.
- ^ Laferriere, J.E. Platanaceae, "Sycamore or Plane Tree Family". Journal of the Arizona–Nevada Academy of Science 26: 238. 1992
- ^ Kaul, Robert B. (1997). "Platanus wrightii". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 3. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ a b Little Jr., Elbert L. (1976). "Map 113, Platanus wrightii". Atlas of United States Trees. Vol. 3 (Minor Western Hardwoods). US Government Printing Office. LCCN 79-653298. OCLC 4053799.
External links
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Media related to Platanus wrightii at Wikimedia Commons- Jepson Manual Treatment
- Platanus wrightii in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley
