Flora of North America species comparison

red-brown, irregularly furrowed or cross-checked, scaly.

gray to red-brown, shallowly fissured, with long, flat, irregular ridges.

spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base;

twigs stout, orange-brown, aging brown to gray, sometimes sparsely puberulent.

contorted;

twigs pale red-brown, aging gray, puberulent, young branches resembling long bottlebrushes because of persistent leaves.

ellipsoid, light red-brown, 0.5–0.7cm, resinous;

scale margins fringed.

ovoid-acuminate, pale red-brown, ca. 1cm, resinous.

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.

5 per fascicle, upcurved, persisting 10–17 years, (2–)3–4cm × 0.8–1mm, mostly connivent, deep blue-green, with drops and scales of resin, abaxial surface with strong, narrow median groove, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened by stomates, margins entire or distantly serrulate, apex conic-acute to conic-subulate;

sheath 0.5–1.5cm, scales soon recurving, shed early.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, bluish to red.

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.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, lance-cylindric before opening, lance-ovoid to ovoid or cylindric when open, 6–11cm, purple to brown, nearly sessile;

apophyses much thickened;

umbo central, with triangular base, extended into slender, brittle prickle 4–10mm.

=24.

=24.