| Pinus yunnanensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Pinus yunnanensis Franch.
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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
References
- 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.
- "Pinus yunnanensis (Yunnan pine)". Global Species. Myers Enterprises II. Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- "Pinus yunnanensis (云南松, Yunnan pine) description". www.conifers.org. Retrieved 2026-03-11.