Editing Pinus aristata (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Pinus aristata - Charles Edward Faxon.png|thumb|The branches and cones of Pinus aristata as illustrated by [[Charles Edward Faxon]] in The Silva of North America<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sargent |first1=Charles Sprague |author1-link=Charles Sprague Sargent |title=The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees Which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico |date=1897 |publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Company |location=Boston, Massachusetts |pages=63-64, Tab DLIV |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16054005 |access-date=17 August 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000329315/page/63 |archive-date=22 November 2011 |language=en |volume=XI Coniferae (Pinus)}}</ref>]]
''Pinus aristata'' was scientifically described in 1862 by [[George Engelmann]] with its present scientific name.<ref name="POWO" /> The botanical samples used to describe and name the species were collected in 1861 by [[Charles Christopher Parry]], however the earliest known scientific collection was by Frederick Creuzefeldt in 1853.<ref name="Garden of Bristlecones" /> In 1878 Englemann worked on a reclassification of the taxon as a variety of ''[[Pinus balfouriana]]'' and in 1880 as a subspecies.<ref name="POWO" /> This reassessment was initially accepted by botanists such as [[Charles Sprague Sargent]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sargent |first1=Charles Sprague |title=The Woods of the United States |date=1885 |publisher=D. Appleton and company |location=New York |page=118 |url=https://archive.org/details/woodsunitedstat01histgoog/page/n134 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> but was rejected by others such as [[Edward James Ravenscroft]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ravenscroft |first1=Edward |title=The Pinetum Britannicum : A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees Cultivated in Great Britain |date=1884 |publisher=W. Blackwood & Sons : E. Ravenscroft |location=Edinburgh ; London |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pinetumbritanni1rave/page/n18 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=Latin, English |chapter=35: ''Pinus aristata''}}</ref> It is listed as an accepted species with no subspecies by [[Plants of the World Online]],<ref name="POWO" /> [[World Flora Online]],<ref>{{Cite WFO |title=''Pinus aristata'' Engelm. |id=0000482619 |access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref> and World Plants.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Michael |first1=Hassler |title=Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 24.7 |url=https://www.worldplants.de/ |website=World Plants |access-date=20 July 2024 |language=en |date=18 July 2024}}</ref> Prior to work by Dana K. Bailey published in 1971, ''[[Pinus longaeva]]'' trees growing in California, Nevada, and Utah were not identified as a separate species or subspecies.<ref>{{cite POWO |id=197012-2 |title=''Pinus longaeva'' D.K.Bailey |access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="PineTreeBook">{{cite book |last1=Peterson |first1=Russell Francis |title=The Pine Tree Book |date=2004 |publisher=Central Park Conservancy |location=New York |isbn=978-0-9604540-0-6 |pages=75–76 |edition=Second |url=https://archive.org/details/pinetreebookbase0000pete/page/75 |access-date=20 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> A distance of {{convert|160|mi|km|sp=us|order=flip}} separates the populations of ''P.&nbsp;aristata'' from the closest groves of ''P.&nbsp;longaeva''.<ref name="Sierra Club" />

===Names===
The species name ''aristata'' means "bristle" in botanical Latin, a reference to the long points on the ends of the scales of its cones.<ref name="Garden of Bristlecones">{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Michael P. |title=A Garden of Bristlecones : Tales of Change in the Great Basin |date=1998 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |location=Reno, Nevada |isbn=978-0-87417-296-6 |pages=5-6, 16–17, 22, 27–28, 175 |url=https://archive.org/details/gardenofbristlec0000cohe/page/5 |access-date=20 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> As the first bristlecone identified, ''Pinus aristata'' is still occasionally referred to simply as ''bristlecone pine'',<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barnard |editor1-first=Loretta |editor2-last=Doggett |editor2-first=Dannielle |editor3-last=Doig |editor3-first=Fiona |editor4-last=Etherington |editor4-first=Kate |title=Flora's Plant Names |date=2003 |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon |isbn=978-0-88192-605-7 |pages=52–53 |url=https://archive.org/details/florasplantnames00glob/page/52}}</ref> however ''Pinus longaeva'' is also sometimes called bristlecone pine in English.<ref name="Grandtner">{{cite book |last1=Grandtner |first1=Miroslav M. |title=Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees |date=2005 |publisher=Elsevier |location=Amsterdam |pages=642, 650 |url=https://archive.org/details/grandtner-m.-elseviers-dictionary-of-trees-1/page/642 |access-date=21 July 2024 |language=en |volume=1: North America }}</ref> To distinguish it from its relative the name ''Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine'' has been used since at least 1971 and the similar ''Colorado bristlecone'' has been in use since at least 1976.<ref name="Gates">{{cite journal |last1=Gates |first1=David M. |title=An Amateur Botanist's Great Discovery: Dana K. Bailey and ''Pinus longaeva'' |journal=Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin |date=1971 |volume=59 |issue=39–48 |url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002465422/page/n113 |access-date=22 July 2024 |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=St. Louis, Missouri}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mirov |first1=Nicholas Tiho |last2=Hasbrouck |first2=Jean |title=The Story of Pines |date=1976 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington, Indiana |isbn=978-0-253-35462-4 |page=72 |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofpines00ntmi/page/72 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The common name ''hickory pine'' is used, most often in Colorado, due to the hardness and density of the wood being like that of a [[hickory]].<ref name="Garden of Bristlecones" /> It is additionally known as ''foxtail pine'' and ''wind timber'',<ref name="Grandtner" /> but the first of these names is more often applied to ''Pinus balfouriana''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schlenz |first1=Mark A. |title=A Day in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest |date=2008 |publisher=Companion Press |location=Bishop, California |isbn=978-0-944197-85-1 |pages=8, 53 |url=https://archive.org/details/dayinancientbris0000schl/page/53 |access-date=21 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref>