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|accepted_name=Pinus flexilis
|accepted_authority=E. James
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Account Exped. Pittsburgh
|place=2: 27, 35. 1823
|year=1823
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|common_names=Limber pine;pin blanc de l'ouest
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Apinus flexilis
|authority=(E.James) Rydberg
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus flexilis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pinus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pinus flexilis]]</div></div>
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 26m; trunk to 2m diam., straight to contorted; crown conic, becoming rounded. <b>Bark</b> gray, nearly smooth, cross-checked in age into scaly plates and ridges. <b>Branches</b> spreading to ascending, often persistent to trunk base; twigs pale red-brown, puberulous (rarely glabrous), slightly resinous, aging gray, smooth. <b>Buds</b> ovoid, light red-brown, 0.9–1cm, resinous; lower scales ciliolate along margins. <b>Leaves</b> 5 per fascicle, spreading to upcurved and ascending, persisting 5–6 years, 3–7cm × 1–1.5mm, pliant, dark green, abaxial surface with less conspicuous stomatal bands than adaxial surfaces, adaxial surfaces with strong, pale stomatal bands, margins finely serrulate, apex conic-acute to acuminate; sheath 1–1.5(–2)cm, shed early. <b>Pollen</b> cones broadly ellipsoid-cylindric, ca. 15mm, pale red or yellow. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, lance-ovoid before opening, cylindro-ovoid when open, 7–15cm, straw-colored, resinous, sessile to short-stalked, apophyses much thickened, strongly cross-keeled, umbo terminal, depressed. <b>Seeds</b> irregularly obovoid; body 10–15mm, brown, sometimes mottled darker, wingless or nearly so. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=High montane forests, often at timberline
|elevation=(1000–)1500–3600m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus flexilis</i>, much branched with a strongly tapering trunk, is little utilized because of its form and relative inaccessibility. It reportedly forms intermediates with <i>P. strobiformis</i> where the two overlap. The fresh-cut wood has the odor of turpentine.</p>
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name=Pinus flexilis
|author=
|authority=E. James
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Apinus flexilis
|basionyms=
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=High montane forests, often at timberline
|elevation=(1000–)1500–3600m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Account Exped. Pittsburgh
|publication year=1823
|special status=
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus flexilis
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