Flora of North America species comparison

gray, aging red-brown, furrowed, with narrow, irregular, scaly ridges.

pale gray, from distance appearing whitish to light gray and smooth, in age separating into thin plates.

spreading-ascending;

twigs slender, pale red-brown, puberulous or glabrous, sometimes glaucous, aging gray or gray-brown, smooth.

spreading to ascending, often persistent to trunk base;

twigs stout, pale red-brown, with light brown, often glandular puberulence, somewhat roughened by elevated scars, aging gray to pale gray-brown.

ellipsoid, red-brown, ca. 1cm, resinous.

ovoid, light red-brown, 0.8–1cm;

scale margins entire.

5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending-upcurved, persisting 3–5 years, 4–9cm × 0.6–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, dark green to blue-green, abaxial surface without evident stomatal lines, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened by narrow stomatal lines, margins sharp, razorlike and entire to finely serrulate, apex narrowly acute to short-subulate;

sheath 1.5–2cm, shed early.

5 per fascicle, mostly ascending and upcurved, persisting 5–8 years, 3–7cm × 1–1.5(–2)mm, mostly connivent, deep yellow-green, abaxial surface less so, adaxial surface conspicuously whitened by stomates, margins rounded, minutely serrulate distally, apex conic-acute;

sheath 0.8–1.2cm, shed early.

cylindric, ca. 6–10mm, pale yellow-brown.

cylindro-ovoid, ca. 10–15mm, scarlet.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, pendent, symmetric, lance-cylindric before opening, broadly lance-cylindric when open, 15–25cm, creamy brown to light yellow-brown, stalks to 6cm;

apophyses somewhat thickened, strongly cross-keeled, tip reflexed;

umbo terminal, low.

cones remaining on tree (unless dislodged by animals), not opening naturally but through animal agency, spreading, symmetric, broadly ovoid to depressed-ovoid or nearly globose, 4–8cm, dull gray- to black-purple, sessile to short-stalked;

scales thin-based and easily broken off;

apophyses much thickened, strongly cross-keeled, tip upcurved, brown;

umbo terminal, short, incurved, broadly triangular, tip acute.

=24.

=24.