Flora of North America species comparison

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

gray, distinctly platy, plates scaly.

spreading-ascending;

twigs moderately slender (to 1cm thick), orange- to red-brown, aging darker brown, rough.

nearly whorled, spreading-ascending;

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

ovoid-acuminate, red-brown, to ca. 2cm, resinous;

scale margins fringed.

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

2 per fascicle, straight or slightly twisted, brittle, breaking cleanly when bent, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with narrow stomatal bands, margins serrulate, apex short-conic, acute;

sheath 1–2.5cm, base persistent.

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.

ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, dark purple.

ellipsoid, 10–15mm, yellow.

cones maturing and opening in 2 years, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to nearly globose when open, 3.5–6cm, light red-brown, nearly sessile;

apophyses slightly thickened, slightly raised, transversely low-keeled;

umbo central, centrally depressed, unarmed.

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.

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