Pinus sylvestris var. sylvestris Serg. & Kondr.

Trees to 4
 (usually much shorter in North America); trunk to 0.
 diam. (usually less in North America), straight or contorted, erect or leaning; crown broad-conic to irregular or flattened. Bark ashy gray to brown, furrowed, ridges irregularly rectangular, scaly, orange on upper sections of trunk, platy. Branches spreading to ascending, poorly self-pruning; twigs slender, dull green-to orange-brown, not glaucous, aging gray-brown, rough. Buds conic-ovoid, red-brown, 0.6--1.1cm, resinous. Leaves 2 per fascicle, spreading to ascending-upcurved, persisting 2--4 years, 4--6(--8)cm ´ 2mm, strongly twisted, somewhat flattened, blue-to gray-or yellow-green, all surfaces with evident stomatal lines, margins entire to finely serrulate, apex acute to abruptly acuminate; sheath 0.3--0.6cm, base semipersistent. Pollen cones ovoid, to 10mm, yellow or pale pink. Seed cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and mostly falling soon thereafter, nearly symmetric, narrowly ovoid or lanceoloid before opening, broadly ovoid to depressed-globose when open, 3--6cm, dull gray-brown to tan or greenish gray, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm, scales lacking contrasting border on adaxial surface distally; apophyses slightly raised, isodiametric, 4-keeled, more elongate abaxially toward cone base; umbo central, raised to depressed, truncate, mostly umbilicate, unarmed. Seeds asymmetrically obovoid; body 3--5mm, gray to near black; wing to 15mm.