Flora of North America species comparison

gray, distinctly platy, plates scaly.

orange-brown, with coarse, rectangular, scaly plates.

nearly whorled, spreading-ascending;

twigs slender, pale red-brown, rusty puberulent and slightly glandular (rarely glabrous), aging purple-brown or gray, smooth.

spreading-descending, upcurved at tips;

twigs stout (to 2cm thick), orange-brown, aging darker brown, rough.

ellipsoid or cylindric, rust-colored, 0.4–0.5cm, slightly resinous.

ovoid, silvery white, 3–4cm;

scales narrow, margins fringed.

5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending, persisting 3–4 years, 4–10cm × 0.7–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, blue-green, abaxial surface without evident stomatal lines, adaxial surfaces with evident stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex broadly to narrowly acute;

sheath 1–1.5cm, shed early.

(2)–3 per fascicle, spreading-recurved, persisting 2 years, 20–45cm × ca. 1.5mm, slightly twisted, lustrous yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute to acuminate;

sheath 2–2.5(–3)cm, base persistent.

ellipsoid, 10–15mm, yellow.

cylindric, 30–80mm, purplish.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, clustered, pendent, symmetric, lance-cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric before opening, broadly lanceoloid to ellipsoid-cylindric when open, 10–25cm, creamy brown to yellowish, without purple or gray tints, resinous, stalks to 2cm;

umbo terminal, depressed.

cones maturing in 2 years, quickly shedding seeds and falling, solitary or paired toward branchlet tips, symmetric, lanceoloid before opening, ovoid-cylindric when open, 15–25cm, dull brown, sessile (rarely short-stalked);

apophyses dull, slightly thickened, slightly raised, nearly rhombic, strongly cross-keeled;

umbo central, broadly triangular, with short, stiff, reflexed prickle.

=24.

=24.