Flora of North America species comparison

gray, distinctly platy, plates scaly.

yellow-brown to reddish, fissured, plates scaly.

nearly whorled, spreading-ascending;

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

spreading-ascending;

twigs stout, orangish, aging gray, rough.

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

ovoid, red-brown, 1.5–2cm, not resinous;

scale 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-ascending, persisting (2–)4–6(–7) years, 10–15cm × ca. 1.5mm, slightly twisted, gray-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex acuminate;

sheath 1–2cm, base persistent.

ellipsoid, 10–15mm, yellow.

cylindric, 10–20mm, red-purple.

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, shedding seeds soon thereafter, not persistent, spreading, slightly asymmetric, ovoid-conic before opening, broadly ovoid when open, 7–10cm, tan or pale red-brown, sessile, abaxial surface of scales darker and sharply contrasting in color with adaxial surface;

apophyses slightly raised, low pyramidal;

umbo central, narrowly pyramidal, tapering into short, reflexed, fine prickle.

=24.

=24.