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VicFlora Flora of Victoria

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Pinopsida
Pinales
Pinaceae
Pinus
Pinus nigra
Sibling

Pinus nigra subsp. laricio

Maire Corsican Pine

Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 19: 66 (1928)

Taxonomic status Accepted

Occurrence status Present

Origin Introduced

Degree of establishment Naturalised

Tree up to 40 m tall or more. Bark rough, greyish-brown to dark brown; winter buds 12–25 mm long, resinous; scales persistent, fringed, appressed. Leaves in pairs, 10–15 cm long, dark green. Female cones solitary or in clusters, subsessile, yellowish-brown, ovoid-conic, 3–8 cm long, deciduous; exposed portion of scale angular but slightly rounded, with truncate basal protuberance. Seed with a well-developed wing.

VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, NIS, HSF. Also naturalised SA. Native to France (Corsica), Italy (Calabria, Sicily). This pine sometimes escapes into eucalypt forest from Victorian plantations.

Subsp. laricio differs from subsp. nigra in being more sparsely branched, with more flexible, narrow leaves which are less persistent (rarely lasting longer than three years).

Source:

Entwisle, T.J. (1994). Conifers (Pinophyta). In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons‍, pp. 113–121. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 3 May 2018

Pinus nigra subsp. laricio (hero image)

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Pinus nigra subsp. laricio (distribution map)

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Pinus nigra J.F.Arnold

Higher taxa

subspecies

Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Maire

Subordinate taxa

Synonyms

Pinus nigra var. corsicana (Loudon) Hyl.
Pinus nigra var. maritima (Aiton) Melville

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