Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base;

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

often ascending;

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

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

scale margins fringed.

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

scale margins white-fringed, apex cuspidate.

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.

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.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, 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, 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, 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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