The young corms are white, becoming scaly and brown when mature, subglobose, somewhat flattened, 1-4 cm across. ❋ Unknown (1987)
Abdomen ovate, truncate at the base, its apex fuscous; the first node of the petiole compressed, its margin rounded above, the second node incrassate and subglobose; club of the antennæ 2-jointed. ❋ Various (N/A)
Head, antennæ, thorax, and legs honey-yellow and very smooth and shining; thorax strangulated at the base of the metathorax, which is not spined; the first node of the abdomen is oblique anteriorly, and vertical behind, the second node subglobose. ❋ Various (N/A)
Abdomen ovate, smooth, shining, and with a scattered fulvous pubescence; the first node of the petiole rounded in front, narrowed and truncate behind, with a large compressed tooth beneath; the second node subglobose. ❋ Various (N/A)
Abdomen thinly covered with a fine cinereous pile; the first node of the petiole somewhat oblong-ovate, the second subglobose, the petiole of the first node short. ❋ Various (N/A)
BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Cones from 5 to 7 cm. long, subglobose or short-ovate, symmetrical, persistent, serotinous; apophyses lustrous tawny yellow, slightly elevated along a transverse keel, the umbo forming the broad base of a slender, rather fragile prickle. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)
Cones from 5 to 7 cm. long, subsessile, oval or subglobose; apophyses nut-brown or fulvous brown, dull or slightly lustrous, very thick, the under surface conspicuous, meeting the upper surface in an acute margin, and terminated by a salient, often acute umbo; seed wingless, the testa bare of spermoderm. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)
Cones triennial, from 10 to 14 cm. long, ovoid or subglobose; apophyses lustrous nut-brown, convex, of large size, the umbo double; seeds large with a short, loosely articulated, deciduous wing. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)
Cones from 4 to 6 cm. long, subglobose, subsessile; apophyses lustrous ochre-yellow, crowned with a quadrilateral umbo bearing the minute prickle of the conelet; seed flaxen yellow when fresh, its testa bare, the spermoderm adnate to the cone-scale. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)
The spores are subglobose, minutely spiny, 8 -- 12 µ. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = pileus = is from subglobose to convex and expanded, becoming nearly plane or even depressed by the elevation of the margin in old specimens. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = spores = are subglobose and ovate to elliptical, 6 -- 7 µ long. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = spores = are flesh colored, subglobose, 5 -- 7 µ. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
Spherical, 3-6 inches in circumference: husks rather thin, firm, green turning to brown, separating completely into 4 sections: nut variable in size, subglobose, white, usually 4-angled: kernel large, sweet, edible. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
Fruit subglobose, occasionally rather longer than broad, dark crimson, marked with scattered dark dots, about 1/2 inch in diameter, with thin, sweet, dry yellow flesh; nutlets 3 or ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
