Pinus cembroides

Zuccarini

Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 1: 392. 1832.

Common names: Mexican pinyon piñón pino piñonero
Synonyms: Pinus cembroides var. bicolor Little Pinus cembroides var. remota Little Pinus discolor Pinus remota
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.

Shrubs or trees to 15m; trunk to 0.3m diam., strongly tapering, much branched; crown rounded. Bark redbrown to dark-brown, shallowly and irregularly furrowed, ridges broad, scaly. Branches spreading-ascending; twigs redbrown, sometimes finely papillate, aging gray to gray-brown. Buds ovoid to short cylindric, pale redbrown, 0.5–1.2cm, slightly resinous. Leaves (2–) 3 (–4) per fascicle, spreading to upcurved, persisting 3–4 years, 2–6cm × 0.6–0.9 (–1) mm, connivent, 2–3-sided, blue to gray-green, abaxial surface not conspicuously whitened with stomatal bands or if stomatal bands present, these less conspicuous than on adaxial surfaces, often with 2 subepidermal resin bands evident, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened with stomatal lines, margins entire to finely serrulate, apex narrowly conic or subulate; sheath 0.5–0.7cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. Pollen cones ellipsoid, to 10mm, yellow. Seed-cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, 1–3.5cm, pale-yellow to pale redbrown, resinous, nearly sessile or short-stalked; apophyses thickened, slightly domed, angulate, transversely keeled; umbo subcentral, slightly raised to depressed, truncate or umbilicate. Seeds ovoid to obovoid; body (7–) 12–15 (–20) mm, brown, wingless. 2n =24.


Habitat: Pinyon-juniper woodland, foothills, mesas, tablelands
Elevation: 700–2300m

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Mexico

Discussion

Pinus cembroides is the common pinyon of Mexican commerce. Populations of the Edwards Plateau, Texas, are disjunct about 150km east and north of the main area of distribution of the species, and they have been described as a distinct variety, P. cembroides var. remota Little, on the basis of thin seed shell and a higher frequency of 2-leaved fascicles in contrast to the thicker seed shell and prevalently 3-leaved fascicles in Mexican pinyon populations to the west and south. The strong overlap in nearly all character states between the populations of the Edwards Plateau and other populations makes var. remota difficult to maintain.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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"relatively thin" is not a number.

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resinous +
subulate +  and conic +
keeled +, angulate +  and domed +
Robert Kral +
Zuccarini +
redbrown;dark-brown +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
spreading-ascending +
resinous +
pale redbrown +
conspicuous +
ovoid;short cylindric +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
Mexican pinyon +, piñón +  and pino piñonero +
short-stalked +  and sessile +
pale-yellow;pale redbrown +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
falling +  and maturing +
broadly depressed-ovoid +  and nearly globose +
rounded +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +  and Mexico +
700–2300m +
sheathed +  and sessile +
rounded +, 2-3-angled +  and terete +
Pinyon-juniper woodland, foothills, mesas, tablelands +
sessile +  and short-petiolate +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
blue;gray-green +
persisting +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
spreading;upcurved +
3 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
scale-like +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not winged +  and 2-winged +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. +
fibrous;woody +
arranged +  and overlapping +
persistent +
flattened +
pliable +  and woody +
grouped +  and solitary +
long-persistent +
wingless +, winged +, stalked +  and sessile +
persistent +
pendent;more or less erect +
ovoid;obovoid +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
reduced;well-defined short +
extended +
Pinus cembroides var. bicolor +, Pinus cembroides var. remota +, Pinus discolor +  and Pinus remota +
Pinus cembroides +
species +
decurrent +  and elongate +
tapering +
gray +  and gray-brown +
papillate +
subcentral +
umbilicate +, truncate +  and depressed +
tree +  and shrub +
reduced +