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'''''Pinus pseudostrobus''''', known in English as the '''smooth-bark Mexican pine''' and in Spanish as ''chamite'' or ''pacingo'', is a tree found in forests of [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]].<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /><ref name="Plants of the World Online"/><ref name="iNaturalist">{{cite web |title=''Pinus pseudostrobus'' |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/135769-Pinus-pseudostrobus |website=iNaturalist |access-date=31 March 2021 |ref=6}}</ref> {{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

It is 8 to 25 m tall with a dense and round top.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}It is threatened by logging and wood harvesting.<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /> The bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. {{citation needed|date=April 2021}} It is subject to [[ex-situ conservation]].<ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021" /> It grows at altitudes between 850 and 3250 m. from 26° to 15° north latitude, from [[Sinaloa]], Mexico to [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]]. It occurs within a rainfall regime that rains mostly in summer.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

A stand of about 15 fully mature smooth-bark Mexican pines is in [[Imperial County, California]], at the Palo Verde County Park, in a narrow strip of land between Hwy 78 and the [[Colorado River]]. {{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

In some forested areas like southern [[Nuevo León]] ''Pinus pseudostrobus'' is the tree with largest volume per hectare.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Modelación de la biomasa aérea en bosques templados subtropicales secos en el noreste de México |journal=[[Bosque (journal)|Bosque]] |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-92002022000300243&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es |last=Bautista Cruz |first=Angelina |issue=3 |volume=43 |last2=González Cubas |first2=Rigoberto |doi=10.4067/S0717-92002022000300243 |year=2022 |language=Spanish |trans-title=Modeling of aerial biomass in dry subtropical temperate forests in northeastern Mexico |last3=Treviño Garza |first3=Eduardo Javier |last4=Yerena Yamallel |first4=José Israe |last5=Rodríguez |first5=Eduardo Alanís |last6=Aguirre Calderón |first6=Oscar Alberto}}</ref>