Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zuccarini var. tabuliformis (Carriere) Masters; P. leucosperma Maximowicz; P. sinensis Mayr (1894), not D. Don (1828) nor (Beissner) Voss (1913); P. tabuliformis var. bracteata Takenouchi; P. tabuliformis f. jeholensis Liou & Q. L. Wang; P. tabuliformis f. purpurea Liou & Q. L. Wang; P. tabuliformis var. tokunagai (Nakai) Takenouchi; P. taihangshanensis Hu & Yao; P. tokunagai Nakai.

Trunk monopodial; bark gray or brown-gray toward base of trunk, red-brown toward apex, pale brown inside; crown conical when young, flat topped at maturity; 1st-year branchlets brownish yellow, not glaucous or glaucous only when very young. Needles stout, 10-15 cm × ca. 1.5 mm, stiff. Seed cones 4-9 × 4-9 cm. Apophyses swollen, obviously ridged.

* Hills, mountains; 100-2600 m. Gansu, Hebei, Henan, S Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan