Pinus montezumaeLamb.

Montezuma PineRough-branched Mexican Pine

WFO wfo-0000481750 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pinus montezumae, photographed by Dante S. Figueroa
fig. a Dante S. Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-03-17 / obs. 45794964
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5239048
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62871079
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136145515
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68928369
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. f Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58031460
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Bernabe Colohua
fig. g Bernabe Colohua, CC0 1.0 / obs. 53201789
Pinus montezumae, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22718923

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Pinus montezumae is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemala
Native distribution of Pinus montezumae, 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 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.

Also published as 75 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 antoineana Roezl
  • Pinus aztecaensis Roezl
  • Pinus backhousiana Roezl ex Gordon
  • Pinus boothiana Roezl
  • Pinus boucheiana Roezl
  • Pinus bullata Roezl
  • Pinus carrierei Roezl
  • Pinus chalmaensis Roezl ex Gordon
  • Pinus coarctata Roezl
  • Pinus cornea Roezl ex Gordon
  • Pinus decaisneana Roezl
  • Pinus depauperata Roezl ex Gordon
  • Pinus doelleriana Roezl
  • Pinus elegans Roezl
  • Pinus endlicheriana var. richardiana (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus exserta Roezl
  • Pinus gordoniana Hartw. ex Gordon
  • Pinus grandis Roezl
  • Pinus grandis var. carrierei (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus grandis var. doelleriana (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus grandis var. haageana (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus grandis var. planchonii (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus grandis var. thelemannii (Roezl) Carrière
  • Pinus haageana Roezl

and 51 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.

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