Pinus contorta var. murrayana
in S. Watson,Bot. California 2: 126. 1880.
Common names: Sierra lodgepole pine
Basionym: Pinus murrayana in A. Murray bis, Bot. Exped. Oregon 8: no. 740, plate 1853
Synonyms: Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana (Greville & Balfour) Critchfield
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
Trees to 50m; trunk to 0.9m diam., straight, little tapering; crown mostly conic at maturity. Bark scaly, not evidently furrowed, orange to purple-brown. Branches spreading, ascending at tips. Leaves 5–8cm × 1–2mm, yellow-green, apex acute. Seed-cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, nearly symmetric, mostly spreading, rarely in whorls, more often paired or solitary, mid and lower apophyses mostly shallowly domed.
Habitat: Montane forests
Elevation: 400–3500m
Distribution
Calif., Nev., Oreg., Wash., Mexico in Baja California
Discussion
Pinus contorta var. murrayana is the tallest and best-formed variety of this species.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"relatively thin" is not a number.
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inverted +
resinous +
acute +
exposed +
furrowed +
orange;purple-brown +
plated +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +
included +
resinous +
dark redbrown +
conspicuous +
Sierra lodgepole pine +
6;10 +
conic +
various +
persisting +
developed +
twisted +
yellow-green +
persisting +
dimorphic +
juvenile +
ascending;spreading +
scale-like +
fine +
descending +
serrulate +
clustered +
orange-red +
maturing +
axillary +
spheric +
barely elongate;stubby +
slender +
persistent +
persistent +
in S. Watson,Bot. California +
1880 +
absent +
layered +
unspecialized +
fibrous;woody +
overlapping +
persistent +
free +
flattened +
1;3 +
compound +
symmetric +
long-persistent +
serotinous +
spreading +
axillary +
persistent +
pendent;more or less erect +
obovoid;compressed +
persistent +
dimorphic +
reduced;well-defined short +
close +
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older +
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thickened +
Pinus contorta var. murrayana +
Pinus contorta +
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0m;0.9m +
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depressed-triangular +
resinous +
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monoecious +