Spring-shoots uninodal, pruinose. Leaves in fascicles of 3, 4 or 5, from 15 to 30 cm. long, erect; resin-ducts mostly septal, sometimes internal, hypoderm biform or multiform. Conelets on very long peduncles, mucronate. Cones from 4 to 10 cm. long, long-pedunculate, broad-ovate to ovate-conic, symmetrical or sometimes oblique, persistent, more or less serotinous; apophysis gray-yellow or greenish yellow of high lustre, flat or variously convex, delicately and radially carinate, the umbo often salient, the prickle usually broken away; seed-wing appreciably thickened at the base of the blade.
A subtropical species, ranging from Guatemala to the northern border of Sinaloa in northern Mexico; remarkable for the length of the peduncle of the cone and for the prevalence of septal resin-ducts in the leaf.
Fig. 271, Three cones and seed. Fig. 272, Leaf-fascicle and magnified leaf-section. Fig. 273, Cone from northern part of the range. Fig. 274, Leaf-fascicle and magnified leaf-section from near the northern limit.
50. PINUS HALEPENSIS
- 1762 P. sylvestris Gouan, Hort. Reg. Monspel. 494 (not Linnaeus).
- 1768 P. halepensis Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8.
- 1803 P. maritima Lambert, Gen. Pin. i. 13, t. 10.
- 1812 P. resinosa Loiseleur, Nouv. Duham. v. 237, t. 77 (not Aiton).
- 1815 P. brutia Tenore, Cat. Hort. Neap. Appx. 1, 75.
- 1826 P. arabica Sieber ex Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iii. 886.
- 1833 P. pyrenaica David in Ann. Soc. Hort. Paris, 186 (not Lapeyrouse).
- 1834 P. hispanica Cook, Sketches in Spain, ii. 337.
- 1838 P. pityusa Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xi. 49.
- 1841 P. carica Don in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. 459.
- 1847 P. persica Strangways ex Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 157.
- 1855 P. abasica Carrière, Trait. Conif. 352.
- 1855 P. Loiseleuriana Carrière, Trait. Conif. 382.
- 1856 P. Parolinii Visiani in Mem. Ist. Venet. vi. 243, t. 1.
- 1902 P. eldarica Medwejew in Act. Hort. Tiflis. vi-2, 21, f.
Spring-shoots often multinodal. Bark-formation late, the branches ashen gray and smooth for several years. Leaves binate, from 6 to 15 cm. long; resin-ducts external, hypoderm uniform. Conelets obscurely mucronate near the apex. Cones from 8 to 12 cm. long, ovate-conic, symmetrical or subsymmetrical, persistent, often serotinous; apophyses red with a lighter or deeper brownish shade, lustrous, flat, convex or low-pyramidal, radially carinate, the umbo often ashen gray and unarmed.