Pinus devonianaLindl.

Michoacán Pine

WFO wfo-0000481299 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pinus devoniana, photographed by M. Socorro González Elizondo
fig. a M. Socorro González Elizondo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-16 / obs. 181388208
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Dante S. Figueroa
fig. b Dante S. Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 131785713
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49345651
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Dante S. Figueroa
fig. d Dante S. Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45792605
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Dayan Romero
fig. e Dayan Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28236280
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. f Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22868922
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. g Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15205386
Pinus devoniana, photographed by Dante S. Figueroa
fig. h Dante S. Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11393595

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000340900
Filed as
Pinus devoniana Lindl.
Det. by
Farjon, A.
Collected
Stead, J.W. 1979-05-12
Origin
GT
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Pinus devoniana is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemala
Native distribution of Pinus devoniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 219 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.6 °C 6.7 °C 11.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.1 °C 26.6 °C 31.8 °C
Annual rainfall 616 mm 1,053 mm 1,793 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 16 mm 31 mm 71 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 219 research-grade observations of Pinus devoniana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pinus devoniana subsp. nayaritana (Martínez) Silba
  • Pinus devoniana subsp. procera (Martínez) Silba
  • Pinus devoniana subsp. quevedoi (Martínez) Silba
  • Pinus devoniana subsp. tumida (Martínez) Silba
  • Pinus devoniana subsp. wincesteriana (Gordon) Silba
  • Pinus filifolia Lindl.
  • Pinus grenvilleae Gordon
  • Pinus macrophylla Lindl.
  • Pinus magnifica Roezl
  • Pinus michoacaensis Roezl
  • Pinus michoacana Martínez
  • Pinus michoacana f. nayaritana Martínez
  • Pinus michoacana f. procera Martínez
  • Pinus michoacana f. tumida Martínez
  • Pinus michoacana var. cornuta Martínez
  • Pinus michoacana var. quevedoi Martínez
  • Pinus montezumae var. macrophylla (Lindl.) Parl.
  • Pinus nec-plus-ultra Roezl
  • Pinus ocampii Roezl
  • Pinus pawlikowskiana Roezl ex Carrière
  • Pinus pawlikowskiana Roezl ex Gordon
  • Pinus pawlowskiana Roezl ex Carrière
  • Pinus quevedoi (Martínez) Gaussen
  • Pinus skinneri Forbes ex Gordon

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.