华山松 (原变种) hua shan song (yuan bian zhong)

Pinus excelsa Wallich ex D. Don var. chinensis Patschke; P. levis Lemee & H. Léveillé; P. scipioniformis Masters.

Branchlets green or gray-green, drying brown. Pollen cones erect, stout, ovoid-ellipsoid. Apophyses yellow or brown-yellow when mature, rhombic, not recurved distally or recurved only at umbo.

Mountains, river basins; 1000-3300 m. S Gansu, C and NW Guizhou, Hainan, SW Henan, W Hubei, S Shaanxi, S Shanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [N Myanmar]