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  • Subgenus ''Strobus'' Scale without a sealing band. Umbo terminal. Seedwings adnate. One fibrovascular bundle per leaf.

  • Subgenus ''Ducampopinus'' Scale without a sealing band. Umbo dorsal. Seedwings articulate. One fibrovascular bundle per leaf.

  • Subgenus ''Pinus'' Scale with a sealing band. Umbo dorsal. Seedwings articulate. Two fibrovascular bundles per leaf.


Notice that in many respects, subgenus ''Ducampopinus'' is intermediate between (and possibly ancestral to) the other two subgenera. In many classifications, it is combined into subgenus ''Strobus'', but it could with equal justification have been included in subgenus ''Pinus'' (as was done in an early classification by the California n botanist J G Lemmon in 1888), yet it does not sit comfortably in either so is best treated as a third subgenus in its own right. In general, cone and cone scale and seed morphology and leaf fascicle and sheath morphology are emphasized and this seems to result in a classification that has subsections of pines that are understandable and usually readily recognized by their general appearance. Pines with one fibrovascular bundle per leaf, i.e. subgenera ''Strobus'' and ''Ducampopinus'', are known as ''haploxylon pines'', while pines with two fibrovascular bundles per leaf, i.e. subgenus ''Pinus'', are called ''diploxylon pines''. Diploxylon pines tend to have harder timber and more amounts of resin than the haploxylon pines.


''PINUS'' CLASSIFICIATION


Subgenus ''Strobus:'' white or soft pines



Subgenus ''Ducampopinus:'' Pinyon, Lacebark and Foxtail Pines



Subgenus ''Pinus'' - yellow or hard pines