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|accepted_name=Pinus pungens
|accepted_authority=Lambert
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Bot. (London)
|place=2: 198. 1805
|year=1805
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|common_names=Table mountain pine;mountain pine
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus pungens
|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 pungens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 12m; trunk to 0.6m diam., straight to crooked, erect to leaning, poorly self-pruning; crown irregularly rounded or flattened. <b>Bark</b> red- to gray-brown, irregularly checked into scaly plates. <b>Branches</b> horizontally spreading; twigs slender, orange- to yellow-brown, aging darker brown, rough. <b>Buds</b> ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.6–0.9cm, resinous. <b>Leaves</b> 2(–3) per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3 years, 3–6(–8)cm × 1–1.5mm, twisted, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins harshly serrulate, apex acute to short-acuminate; sheath 0.5–1cm, base persistent. <b>Pollen</b> cones ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, yellow. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, variably serotinous, mostly whorled, downcurved, asymmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid when open, (4–)6–10cm, gray- to pale red-brown, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm; apophyses thickened, diamond-shaped, strongly keeled, elongate, mammillate at cone base abaxially; umbo central, a stout, curved, sharp claw. <b>Seeds</b> deltoid-obovoid, oblique; body ca. 6mm, deep purple-brown to black; wing 10–20(–30)mm. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry, mostly sandy or shaly uplands, Appalachians and associated Piedmont
|elevation=500–1350m
|distribution=Del.;Ga.;Md.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus pungens</i> is a scrub pine and is too small and knotty to be much utilized except for pulpwood and firewood. Its common name refers to a general type of landform, not to a specific, named mountain.</p>
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|authority=Lambert
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|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Dry, mostly sandy or shaly uplands, Appalachians and associated Piedmont
|elevation=500–1350m
|distribution=Del.;Ga.;Md.;N.J.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Bot. (London)
|publication year=1805
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|species=Pinus pungens
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