Mexicanconifers.org is the lab web page of David Gernandt. Visitors can find pages with species lists of Mexican conifers, information on current and past students, ongoing herbarium database capturing projects, molecular protocols, course offerings, and links to events at the Instituto de Biología, UNAM.

Mexican pines

Mexico has more pine species than any other country. At present I recognize 50 species in Mexico. This is more than Farjon and Styles (1997) but fewer than Perry (1991). Both subgenera are represented in Mexico, as are three of four sections and six of eleven subsections.

subgenus Pinus

subsection Contortae

1. Pinus contorta

subsection Australes

2. Pinus attenuata

3. Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis

4. Pinus chihuahuana

5. Pinus greggii

6. Pinus georginae

7. Pinus herrerae

8. Pinus jaliscana

9. Pinus lawsonii

10. Pinus leiophyla

11. Pinus lumholtzii

12. Pinus luzmariae

13. Pinus muricata

14. Pinus oocarpa

15. Pinus patula

16. Pinus praetermissa

17. Pinus pringlei

18. Pinus radiata var. binata

19. Pinus tecunumanii

20. Pinus teocote

subsection Ponderosae

21. Pinus arizonica

22. Pinus cooperi

23. Pinus coulteri

24. Pinus devoniana

25. Pinus douglasiana

26. Pinus durangensis

27. Pinus engelmannii

28. Pinus hartwegii

29. Pinus jeffreyi

30. Pinus maximinoi

31. Pinus montezumae

32a. Pinus pseudostrobus var. apulcensis

32b. Pinus pseudostrobus var. estevezii

32c. Pinus pseudostrobus var. pseudostrobus

33. Pinus scopulorum

subgenus Strobus

subsection Cembroides

34. Pinus californiarum

35a. Pinus cembroides subsp. cembroides

35b. Pinus cembroides subsp. lagunae

35c. Pinus cembroides subsp. orizabensis

36. Pinus culminicola

37. Pinus discolor

38. Pinus johannis

39. Pinus maximartinezii

40. Pinus pinceana

41. Pinus quadrifolia

42. Pinus remota

43. Pinus rzedowskii

subsection Nelsoniae

44. Pinus nelsonii

subsection Strobus

45. Pinus ayacahuite

46. Pinus chiapensis

47. Pinus flexilis

48. Pinus lambertiana

49. Pinus strobiformis