Related Species
Pinus merkusii, the Sumatran Pine. is closely related to the Tenasserim Pine - Pinus latteri, which occurs further north in southeast Asia from Myanmar to Vietnam; some botanists treat the two as conspecific (under the name Pinus merkusii, which was described first), but Pinus latteri differs in longer (18-27 cm) and stouter (over 1 mm thick) leaves and larger cones with thicker scales, the cones often remaining closed for some time after maturity. It is also related to the group of Mediterranean pines including Aleppo Pine and Turkish Pine, which share many features with it.
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