Pinus flexilis |
Pinus monophylla |
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limber pine, pin blanc de l'ouest |
piñón, single leaf pinyon, single-leaf pine, singleleaf pinyon pine |
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Habit | Trees to 26m; trunk to 2m diam., straight to contorted; crown conic, becoming rounded. | Trees to 14m; trunk to 0.5m diam., strongly tapering, much branched; crown usually rounded, dense. |
Bark | gray, nearly smooth, cross-checked in age into scaly plates and ridges. |
red-brown, irregularly furrowed or cross-checked, scaly. |
Branches | spreading to ascending, often persistent to trunk base; twigs pale red-brown, puberulous (rarely glabrous), slightly resinous, aging gray, smooth. |
spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base; twigs stout, orange-brown, aging brown to gray, sometimes sparsely puberulent. |
Buds | ovoid, light red-brown, 0.9–1cm, resinous; lower scales ciliolate along margins. |
ellipsoid, light red-brown, 0.5–0.7cm, resinous; scale margins fringed. |
Leaves | 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. |
1(–2) per fascicle, ascending, persisting 4–6(–10) years, 2–6cm × 1.3–2(–2.5)mm, curved, terete (though often 2-grooved), gray-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins entire, apex subulate; sheath 0.5–1cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. |
Pollen cones | broadly ellipsoid-cylindric, ca. 15mm, pale red or yellow. |
ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow. |
Seed(s) | 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, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, 4–6(–8)cm, pale yellow-brown, nearly sessile; apophyses thickened, slightly raised; umbo subcentral, raised or depressed, nearly truncate, apiculate. |
2n | =24. |
=24. |
Pinus flexilis |
Pinus monophylla |
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Habitat | High montane forests, often at timberline | Dry low-montane or foothill pinyon-juniper woodland |
Elevation | (1000–)1500–3600m ((3300–)4900–11800ft) | 1000–2300m (3300–7500ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WY; AB; BC
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; UT; Mexico in Baja California
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Discussion | Pinus flexilis, much branched with a strongly tapering trunk, is little utilized because of its form and relative inaccessibility. It reportedly forms intermediates with P. strobiformis where the two overlap. The fresh-cut wood has the odor of turpentine. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pinus monophylla hybridizes with P. edulis and P. quadrifolia. Singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla) is the state tree of Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pinaceae > Pinus | Pinaceae > Pinus |
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Synonyms | Apinus flexilis | Caryopitys monophylla, P. californiarum, P. cembroides var. monophylla |
Name authority | E. James: Account Exped. Pittsburgh 2: 27, 35. (1823) | Torrey & Frémont: in Frémont, Rep. Exped. Rocky Mts. 2: 319, plate 4. (1845) |
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