View source for Pinus contorta var. murrayana

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|accepted_name=Pinus contorta var. murrayana
|accepted_authority=(Greville & Balfour) Engelmann in S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in S. Watson,Bot. California
|place=2: 126. 1880
|year=1880
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|common_names=Sierra lodgepole pine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pinus murrayana
|authority=unknown
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana
|authority=(Greville & Balfour) Critchfield
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus contorta;Pinus contorta var. murrayana
|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 contorta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Pinus contorta var. murrayana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 50m; trunk to 0.9m diam., straight, little tapering; crown mostly conic at maturity. <b>Bark</b> scaly, not evidently furrowed, orange- to purple-brown. <b>Branches</b> spreading, ascending at tips. <b>Leaves</b> 5–8cm × 1–2mm, yellow-green, apex acute. <b>Seed</b> 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.</span><!--

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|habitat=Montane forests
|elevation=400–3500m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico in Baja California.
|discussion=<p>Pinus contorta var. murrayana is the tallest and best-formed variety of this species.</p>
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name=Pinus contorta var. murrayana
|author=
|authority=(Greville & Balfour) Engelmann in S. Watson
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana
|basionyms=Pinus murrayana
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Montane forests
|elevation=400–3500m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico in Baja California.
|reference=None
|publication title=in S. Watson,Bot. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus contorta
|variety=Pinus contorta var. murrayana
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