Pinus kesiyaRoyle ex Gordon

Benguet PineKhasi PineKhasia PineLuzon Pine

WFO wfo-0000481052 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pinus kesiya, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. a bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / 2014-05-18 / obs. 107285121
Pinus kesiya, photographed by Josip Skejo
fig. b Josip Skejo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62022907
Pinus kesiya, photographed by Josip Skejo
fig. c Josip Skejo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61887931
Pinus kesiya, photographed by Josip Skejo
fig. d Josip Skejo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62022901
Pinus kesiya, photographed by Cynthia Su
fig. e Cynthia Su, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30878998
Pinus kesiya, photographed by Cynthia Su
fig. f Cynthia Su, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30879003

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Pinus kesiya is native: China South-Central, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralTibetAssamBangladeshCambodiaLaosMyanmarPhilippinesThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Pinus kesiya, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT

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.

Also published as 16 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 cavendishiana Parl.
  • Pinus insularis Endl.
  • Pinus insularis var. khasyana Silba
  • Pinus insularis var. langbianensis (A.Chev.) Silba
  • Pinus kasya Royle ex Parl.
  • Pinus kasya Parl.
  • Pinus kesiya subsp. insularis (Endl.) D.Z.Li
  • Pinus kesiya subsp. langbianensis (A.Chev.) Silba
  • Pinus kesiya subsp. szemaoensis Silba
  • Pinus kesiya var. langbianensis (A.Chev.) Gaussen ex Bui
  • Pinus khasia Engelm.
  • Pinus khasya Royle ex Gord.
  • Pinus khasyana Griff.
  • Pinus langbianensis A.Chev.
  • Pinus taeda Blanco
  • Pinus timoriensis Loudon

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.