Plants evergreen trees up to 70 m tall and 1 m or more in diameter; bark grey to dark grey-brown, scaly; branches whorled, young branchlets initally green, drying red-brown, glabrous; winter buds red-brown, slightly resinous. Needles drooping, in bundles of 5, (6-)11-18(-20 cm) long, about 1 mm in diameter, with 1 vascular bundle and 3 resin canals. Cones pendulous, elongate, on peduncles 2.5-4 cm long, 10-30 cm long, 3-4 cm in diameter when closed, 5-9 cm when open, straight or curved; apophyses shiny, often glaucous, rhombic, slightly thickened; umbos dark brown, only slightly projecting, tip obtuse, incurved. Seeds brown or black-brown, ellipsoid-obovoid, 3-9 mm long, 4-5 mm wide; wings 1-3 cm long, 8-19 mm wide.
Pinus wallichiana grows in the Himalays from Afghanistan through Pakistan to western Nepal, western China, and Myanmar.
Sources:
Nasir, E. and Y.J. Nasir. (1987). Pinaceae in E. Nasir and S.I. Ali (eds), Flora of Pakistan 187: 6-15.