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Stems: Pith continuous. Young twigs (1-year-old or less) brown or orange or yellow, (3-)5-8(-10) mm wide, glabrous. Twigs (2-4 years old) glabrous, scaly. Leaf scars absent, bundle scars absent, stipule scars absent, short shoots present or absent, short shoots bearing leaves. Bark of mature trunks flaky or furrowed or plated. Buds axillary or terminal, bud clusters at ends of twigs present or absent, brown or reddish-brown, (6-)10-15(-20) mm long, lance-cylindric or oblong, sharp, glabrous or pubescent, ciliate, bud scales imbricate.

Leaves: Leaves evergreen, needle-like, simple, sessile, fascicled, spreading or ascending, needles (2-)3 per cluster or fascicle, (10-)12-23(-28) cm long, (0.07-)0.1-0.15(-0.2) cm wide, acicular, leaf margins entire or serrulate, leaf apices acuminate or acute, leaf bases attenuate, leaf cross section three-angled or semicircular. Leaf upper surface green or yellow-green, striped, glabrous. Leaf lower surface green or yellow-green, striped, glabrous. Stipules absent.

Inforescence: Pollen cones shedding pollen February or March or April, (1.5-)2-3(-5) cm long. Seed cone maturation 2 years. Seed cones semi-persistent or not persistent, axillary, sessile or nearly sessile, nearly symmetric or symmetric, before opening lance-cylindric or lanceoloid or ovoid-cylindric, when open conic or ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, (5-)6-12(-15) cm long, immature seed cones green, mature seed cones brown or gray or reddish-brown. Seed cone scales woody, armed. Seed cone armature persistent, curved or straight, strong. Apophyses smooth or wrinkled, keeled.

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Comments: Needles slightly twisted; buds not resinous (or only slightly so); bark plates rarely with resin pockets.

Height: (20-)25-40(-55) m tall.

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stems: Pith continuous. Young twigs (1-year-old or less) brown or orange or yellow, (3-)5-8(-10) mm wide, glabrous. Twigs (2-4 years old) glabrous, scaly. Leaf scars absent, bundle scars absent, stipule scars absent, short shoots present or absent, short shoots bearing leaves. Bark of mature trunks flaky or furrowed or plated. Buds axillary or terminal, bud clusters at ends of twigs present or absent, brown or reddish-brown, (6-)10-15(-20) mm long, lance-cylindric or oblong, sharp, glabrous or pubescent, ciliate, bud scales imbricate.

leaves: Leaves evergreen, needle-like, simple, sessile, fascicled, spreading or ascending, needles (2-)3 per cluster or fascicle, (10-)12-23(-28) cm long, (0.07-)0.1-0.15(-0.2) cm wide, acicular, leaf margins entire or serrulate, leaf apices acuminate or acute, leaf bases attenuate, leaf cross section three-angled or semicircular. Leaf upper surface green or yellow-green, striped, glabrous. Leaf lower surface green or yellow-green, striped, glabrous. Stipules absent.

inflorescence: Pollen cones shedding pollen February or March or April, (1.5-)2-3(-5) cm long. Seed cone maturation 2 years. Seed cones semi-persistent or not persistent, axillary, sessile or nearly sessile, nearly symmetric or symmetric, before opening lance-cylindric or lanceoloid or ovoid-cylindric, when open conic or ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, (5-)6-12(-15) cm long, immature seed cones green, mature seed cones brown or gray or reddish-brown. Seed cone scales woody, armed. Seed cone armature persistent, curved or straight, strong. Apophyses smooth or wrinkled, keeled.

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comments: Needles slightly twisted; buds not resinous (or only slightly so); bark plates rarely with resin pockets.

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native range: southeastern United States