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Taxon: Pinus banksiana Lamb.
Family: Pinaceae

Collector: Nee, M.   62067   

Date: 2015-03-22

Verbatim Date: 2015-03-22

Locality: United States, Wisconsin, Juneau, 10.5 km (by air) SE of Necedah, Buckhorn State Park, around main campground where many trees are being removed from Pinus banksiana, Quercus velutina woods on level, very sandy soil.

43.94  -90.0163889

Verbatim Coordinates: 43° 56' 24" N, 90° 0' 59" W; T17N R04E sec16 NE4SE4;

Elevation: 290 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 290 m

Occurrence Remarks: Tree 15 m tall, 15 cm in diameter (both measured). Voucher for wood specimen, MADw, the specimen from straight central stem, 5 m above the ground. Voucher herbarium specimens from tip of crown, the leaves, denser and a darker green than those from shaded lower branches of this species in this area. This individual with only young, unopened cones, and the cones are persistent; the cone scales slighly loosening during drying, but not to the extent of the spreading or reflexed scales of no. 62068. An adjacent individual (Nee 62068) of the same size, evidently genetically very different, with even the youngest cones all open, and open cones persistent for many yeras, with no closed cones at all.

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Owner: University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS-VP)

Record Id: 3a93bd81-9dd9-4bf8-adac-645de170d6ca

Occurrence ID (GUID): 3b4bd063-a28f-4ead-8fbf-6fd865e08a4f

For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Mary Ann Feist (mfeist@wisc.edu)