Flora of North America species comparison

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

orange- to purple-brown, irregularly furrowed and cross-checked into large, irregularly rectangular, papery-scaly plates.

spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base;

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

spreading to ascending;

twigs stout (to ca. 1cm thick), orange-brown, aging darker brown, rough-scaly.

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

scale margins fringed.

cylindric, silvery brown, 1.5–2cm;

scale margins fringed.

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.

2 or 3 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting ca. 2 years, 15–20(–23)cm × 1.2–1.5mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, yellow- to blue-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute to acuminate;

sheath 1–2cm, base persistent.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow.

cylindric, 30–40mm, purplish.

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, falling the year after seed-shed, single or in pairs, symmetric, lance-ovoid before opening, ovoid or ovoid-cylindric when open, (7–)9–18(–20)cm, light chocolate brown, on stalks to 3cm;

apophyses lustrous (as if varnished), slightly raised, strongly cross-keeled;

umbo central, depressed-pyramidal, with short, stout prickle.

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