Flora of North America species comparison

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

cinnamon- to gray-brown, deeply furrowed, plates long, scaly.

spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base;

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

spreading, distal branches ascending;

twigs gray-green to red-tan, aging gray, mostly puberulent.

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

scale margins fringed.

cylindro-ovoid, red-brown, to 0.8cm, 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, spreading to ascending, persisting 2–4 years, 5–10cm × (0.9–)1–1.5(–2)mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, blue-green, abaxial surface with only a few lines evident, adaxial surfaces with evident white stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex acuminate;

sheath (1–)1.5–2cm, shed early.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow.

ellipsoid-cylindric, to 15mm, yellow.

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, often clustered, pendent, symmetric, cylindric before opening, lance-cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric when open, 25–50cm, yellow-brown, stalks 6–15cm;

apophyses somewhat thickened;

umbo terminal, depressed, resinous, slightly excurved.

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