Tsuga chinensis var. patens, first described in 1997 by (Downie) L. K. Fu & Nan Li, is known as é•¿é˜³é“æ‰ chang yang tie shan in the Chinese language. It is treated as a separate species, namely Tsuga patens, by some authorities.
T. c. var. patens differs from the typical variety in the following ways: