Pinus yunnanensis

Pinus yunnanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Pinus
Subgenus: P. subg. Pinus
Section: P. sect. Pinus
Subsection: P. subsect. Pinus
Species:
P. yunnanensis
Binomial name
Pinus yunnanensis
Franch.

Pinus yunnanensis, the Yunnan pine, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi.[2]

Description

Pinus yunnanensis can grow up to 30 m (98 feet) in height and 1 m (3 ft 3in) in trunk diameter when mature. The bark is rough when young, becoming scaly, fissured, and longitudinally fissured with age; gray-brown weathering to gray. The habit of a mature tree is a single, sometimes forked trunk, with spreading or down curving branches forming a domed or flat-topped crown.[3]

References

  1. ^ Farjon, A.; Christian, T.; Rushforth, K. (2013). "Pinus yunnanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013 e.T42428A2979473. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42428A2979473.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Pinus yunnanensis (Yunnan pine)". Global Species. Myers Enterprises II. Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Pinus yunnanensis (云南松, Yunnan pine) description". www.conifers.org. Retrieved 2026-03-11.