Flora of North America species comparison

gray, nearly smooth, cross-checked in age into scaly plates and ridges.

dark gray-brown to near black, deeply furrowed, with long, scaly, irregularly anastomosing, rounded ridges.

spreading to ascending, often persistent to trunk base;

twigs pale red-brown, puberulous (rarely glabrous), slightly resinous, aging gray, smooth.

often ascending;

twigs stout to moderately slender, violet-brown, often glaucous, aging gray-brown, rough.

ovoid, light red-brown, 0.9–1cm, resinous;

lower scales ciliolate along margins.

ovoid, deep red-brown, 1.5(–3)cm, resinous;

scale margins white-fringed, apex cuspidate.

5 per fascicle, spreading to upcurved and ascending, persisting 5–6 years, 3–7cm × 1–1.5mm, pliant, dark green, abaxial surface with less conspicuous stomatal bands than adaxial surfaces, adaxial surfaces with strong, pale stomatal bands, margins finely serrulate, apex conic-acute to acuminate;

sheath 1–1.5(–2)cm, shed early.

3 per fascicle, slightly spreading, not drooping, mostly ascending in a brush, persisting 3–4 years, 15–30cm × ca. 2mm, slightly curved or straight, twisted, dusty gray-green, all surfaces with pale, fine stomatal lines, margins serrulate, apex abruptly subulate;

sheath 2–4cm, base persistent.

broadly ellipsoid-cylindric, ca. 15mm, pale red or yellow.

ovoid to cylindric, to 25mm, light purple-brown, aging orange-brown.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, lance-ovoid before opening, cylindro-ovoid when open, 7–15cm, straw-colored, resinous, sessile to short-stalked, apophyses much thickened, strongly cross-keeled, umbo terminal, depressed.

cones maturing in 2 years, gradually shedding seeds thereafter and moderately persistent, massive, heavy, drooping, asymmetric at base, narrowly ovoid before opening, ovoid-cylindric when open, 20–35cm, pale yellow-brown, resinous, stalks to 3cm;

apophyses transverse-rhombic, strongly and sharply cross-keeled, elongate, curved, continuous with umbos to form long, upcurved claws 2.5–3cm.

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