Flora of North America species comparison

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

light red-brown, furrowed and cross-checked into irregularly rectangular, scaly plates.

spreading to ascending, often persistent to trunk base;

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

spreading-ascending;

twigs moderately slender (to 1cm thick), orange- to red-brown, aging darker brown, rough.

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

lower scales ciliolate along margins.

ovoid-acuminate, red-brown, to ca. 2cm, resinous;

scale margins fringed.

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.

2 per fascicle, straight or slightly twisted, brittle, breaking cleanly when bent, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with narrow stomatal bands, margins serrulate, apex short-conic, acute;

sheath 1–2.5cm, base persistent.

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

ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, dark purple.

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 and opening in 2 years, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to nearly globose when open, 3.5–6cm, light red-brown, nearly sessile;

apophyses slightly thickened, slightly raised, transversely low-keeled;

umbo central, centrally depressed, unarmed.

=24.

=24.