Pinus edulis

Pinus edulis tree, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA

Pinus edulis strobili, Devil's Canyon Overlook, Emery County, Utah, USA

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Pinus edulis is listed as Least Concern.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pinophyta Classis: Pinopsida Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Pinaceae
Genus: Pinus
Subgenus: P. subg. Strobus
Sectio: P. sect. Parrya
Subsectio: P. subsect. Cembroides
Species: Pinus edulis

Name

Pinus edulis Engelm. Wisl., Mem. Tour N. Mexico [Wislizenus] 88 (1848).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Caryopitys edulis (Engelm.) Small, Fl. S.E. U.S.: 29 (1903).
  • Pinus cembroides subsp. edulis (Engelm.) A.E.Murray, Kalmia 12: 22 (1982).
  • Pinus cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss, Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 16: 95 (1907 publ. 1908).
  • Pinus monophylla var. edulis (Engelm.) M.E.Jones, Zoe 2: 251 (1891).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Northern America Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Wyoming. North-Central U.S.A. Oklahoma. Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Utah. South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico, Texas. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Engelmann, G. in Wislizenus, F. A. 1848. Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico :connected with Col. Doniphan’s expedition, in 1846 and 1847 88.

Additional references

• Kral, R. 1993. Pinus. Pp. 373-398 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.), Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, XVI, 475 pp. ISBN 0-19-508242-7. efloras FNA Website Internet Archive, Lending Library Reference page. 
• Businský, R. 2008. The genus Pinus L., pines: contribution to knowledge. A monograph with cone drawings of all species of the world by Ludmila Businská. Acta Pruhoniciana 88: 1–126. PDF (Text) Photos 1–32 Photos 33–42 Figures 1–73Reference page. 
• Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. 2 vols., pp. 1–526 + 527–1111, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-17718-5. Reference page. 
• Montes, J.R., Peláez, P., Moreno‐Letelier, A. & Gernandt, D.S. 2022. Coalescent‐based species delimitation in North American pinyon pines using low‐copy nuclear genes and plastomes. American Journal of Botany 109(5): 706–726. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1847 Reference page. 

Links

• Farjon, A. 2013. Pinus edulis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013. IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern . DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42360A2975133.en.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Pinus edulis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 7. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Pinus edulis. Published online. Accessed: March 7 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Pinus edulis. Accessed: 7 March 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. Pinus edulis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 March 7. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

العربية: صنوبر مأكول
čeština: Borovice coloradská
English: Colorado Pinyon
فارسی: کاج کلرادو
italiano: Pino del Colorado
перем коми: Колорадоись пожум
русский: Сосна съедобная
удмурт: Колорадоысь пужым

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