Flora of North America species comparison

red-brown, irregularly furrowed and cross-checked to irregularly rectangular, plates scaly.

yellow-brown to reddish, fissured, plates scaly.

spreading to ascending, persistent to trunk base;

twigs slender, pale orange-brown, puberulent-glandular, aging brown to gray-brown.

spreading-ascending;

twigs stout, orangish, aging gray, rough.

ovoid, light red-brown, ca. 0.4–0.5cm, slightly resinous.

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

scale margins fringed.

(3–)4(–5) per fascicle, persisting 3–4 years, (2–)3–6cm × (1–)1.2–1.7mm, curved, connivent, stiff, green to blue-green, margins entire to minutely scaly-denticulate, finely serrulate, apex subulate, adaxial surfaces mostly strongly whitened with stomatal bands, abaxial surface not so but 2 subepidermal resin bands evident;

sheath 0.5–0.6cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, 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.

ovoid, ca. 10mm, yellowish.

cylindric, 10–20mm, red-purple.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to depressed-globose when open, (3–)4–8(–10)cm, pale yellow-brown, sessile to short-stalked, apophyses thickened, strongly raised, diamond-shaped, transversely keeled, umbo subcentral, low-pyramidal or sunken, blunt.

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.

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