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|accepted_name=Pinus monophylla
|accepted_authority=Torrey & Frémont in Frémont
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Frémont,Rep. Exped. Rocky Mts.
|place=2: 319, plate 4. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|common_names=Singleleaf pinyon;piñón
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Caryopitys monophylla
|authority=(Torrey & Frémont) Rydberg
|rank=species
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|name=Pinus californiarum
|authority=D.K.Bailey
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pinus cembroides var. monophylla
|authority=(Torrey & Frémont) Voss
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus monophylla
|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 monophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 14m; trunk to 0.5m diam., strongly tapering, much branched; crown usually rounded, dense. <b>Bark</b> red-brown, irregularly furrowed or cross-checked, scaly. <b>Branches</b> spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base; twigs stout, orange-brown, aging brown to gray, sometimes sparsely puberulent. <b>Buds</b> ellipsoid, light red-brown, 0.5–0.7cm, resinous; scale margins fringed. <b>Leaves</b> 1(–2) per fascicle, ascending, persisting 4–6(–10) years, 2–6cm × 1.3–2(–2.5)mm, curved, terete (though often 2-grooved), gray-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins entire, apex subulate; sheath 0.5–1cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. <b>Pollen</b> cones ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, 4–6(–8)cm, pale yellow-brown, nearly sessile; apophyses thickened, slightly raised; umbo subcentral, raised or depressed, nearly truncate, apiculate. <b>Seeds</b> cylindric-ellipsoid; body 15–20mm, gray-brown to brown, wingless. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry low-montane or foothill pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1000–2300m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Utah;Mexico in Baja California.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus monophylla</i> hybridizes with <i>P. edulis</i> and <i>P. quadrifolia</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Singleleaf pinyon (<i>Pinus monophylla</i>) is the state tree of <i>Nevada</i>.</p>
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name=Pinus monophylla
|authority=Torrey & Frémont in Frémont
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Caryopitys monophylla;Pinus californiarum;Pinus cembroides var. monophylla
|basionyms=
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Dry low-montane or foothill pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1000–2300m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Utah;Mexico in Baja California.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Frémont,Rep. Exped. Rocky Mts.
|publication year=1845
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V2/V2_55.xml
|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus monophylla
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