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|accepted_name=Pinus echinata
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict., ed. 8
|place=Pinus no. 12. 1768
|year=1768
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|common_names=Shortleaf pine
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus echinata
|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 echinata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 40m; trunk to 1.2m diam., straight; crown rounded to conic. <b>Bark</b> red-brown, scaly-plated, plates with evident resin pockets. <b>Branches</b> spreading-ascending; 2-year-old branchlets slender (ca. 5mm or less), greenish brown to red-brown, often glaucous, aging red-brown to gray, roughened and cracking below leafy portion. <b>Buds</b> ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.5–0.7(–1)cm, resinous. <b>Leaves</b> 2(–3) per fascicle, spreading-ascending, persistent 3–5 years, (5–)7–11(–13)cm × ca. 1mm, straight, slightly twisted, gray- to yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute; sheath 0.5–1(–1.5)cm, base persistent. <b>Pollen</b> cones cylindric, 15–20mm, yellow- to pale purple-green. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, semipersistent, solitary or clustered, spreading, symmetric, lanceoloid or narrowly ovoid before opening, ovoid-conic when open, 4–6(–7)cm, red-brown, aging gray, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm, scales lacking contrasting dark border on adaxial surfaces distally; umbo central, with elongate to short, stout, sharp prickle. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid; body ca. 6mm, gray to nearly black; wing 12–16mm. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Uplands, dry forests
|elevation=200–610m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Although <i>Pinus echinata</i> is highly valued for timber and pulpwood, it is afflicted by root rot. It hybridizes with <i>P. taeda</i>, the pine most commonly associated with it.</p>
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name=Pinus echinata
|authority=Miller
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|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Uplands, dry forests
|elevation=200–610m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict., ed. 8
|publication year=1768
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus echinata
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