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Gimnosperms / Gimnospermas
Pinus caribaea Morelet
EOL Text
Flowering class: Gymnosperm Habit: Tree Distribution notes: Exotic
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Global Distribution
Cuba
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
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Trees to 40 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h. in native range; bark gray or pale reddish brown, fissured and shed in large, flat, wide plates; crown ovoid or irregularly shaped; branchlets initially green and glaucous, aging orange-brown, producing a few short nodes each year; winter buds cylindric, scales white fringed at margin. Needles (2 or)3 per bundle, usually 4 or 5 per bundle on young trees, dull green or pale yellow-green, 15-30 cm × ca. 1.5 mm, stomatal lines present on all surfaces, resin canals (2 or)3 or 4(-8), internal, base with persistent sheath 1-1.5 cm, margin serrulate. Seed cones almost terminal, ovoid-cylindric, 5-10(-12) × 3-6 cm, often leaving a few basal scales. Seed scales reflexed or spreading; apophyses lustrous, tan or reddish brown, swollen, cross keeled; umbo slightly projecting, ending in a straight, minute prickle. Seeds usually narrowly mottled gray or light brown, rhombic-ovoid, 6-7 mm; wing dull gray, 2-2.5 cm, usually remaining attached.
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"Trees to 25 m; crown sparse; bark reddish-brown; winter buds oblong, tapering above, scales oblong, to 1.4 cm, apex acuminate; margins serrulate. Leaves in 3 s, rarely more, to 25 cm, margins serrulate, apex acute; stomatic lines on all 3 sides, in 5-7 rows; basal sheath to 1.5 cm, persistent. Staminate cones ovoid, to 1.2 x 0.6 cm, clustered. Microsporophylls broadly obovate, to 0.15 cm; hood rounded, to 0.1 cm."
Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Terrestrial
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Cultivated. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Jiangxi [native to Caribbean region, Central America]
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Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1