Flora of North America species comparison

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

gray-brown, deeply furrowed, with long, irregularly rectangular, scaly plates.

spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base;

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

whorled, spreading-upswept;

twigs slender, pale red-brown, glabrous or pale puberulent, aging gray, ±smooth.

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

scale margins fringed.

ovoid-cylindric, light red-brown, 0.4–0.5cm, slightly 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 2–3 years, 6–10cm × 0.7–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, deep green to blue-green, pale stomatal lines evident only on adaxial surfaces, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute to short-acuminate;

sheath 1–1.5cm, shed early.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow.

ellipsoid, 10–15mm, 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, clustered, pendent, symmetric, cylindric to lance-cylindric or ellipsoid-cylindric before opening, ellipsoid-cylindric to cylindric or lance-cylindric when open, (7–)8–20cm, gray-brown to pale brown, with purple or gray tints, stalks 2–3cm;

apophyses slightly raised, resinous at tip;

umbo terminal, low.

=24.

=24.