Flora of North America species comparison

gray-brown, scaly.

gray to brown.

short and stout, the upper ascending, the lower drooping;

twigs stout, reddish brown, usually glabrous.

drooping;

twigs pendent, elongate, slender, gray-brown, finely pubescent.

reddish brown, 5–7mm, apex acute.

gray-brown, 5–7mm, apex rounded.

1–2.5cm, 4-angled in cross section, rigid, light to dark green, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex blunt-tipped.

1.5–3cm, flattened or broadly triangular in cross section (abaxial surface rounded or slightly angular), rather rigid, abaxial surface dark green with stomatal bands absent, adaxial surface glaucous with conspicuous stomatal bands separated by slight ridge or angle, apex blunt (especially on older leaves).

cones (10–)12–16cm;

scales diamond-shaped, widest near middle, 18–30 × 15–20mm, thin and flexuous, margin at apex erose to toothed, apex extending 6–10mm beyond seed-wing impression.

cones 6.5–12cm;

scales fan-shaped, 15–20 × 15–20mm, rigid, margin at apex entire to slightly erose.

=24.