Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Pinophyta Reveal - conifers |
| class | Pinopsida Burnett |
| order | Pinales Gorozh. |
| family | Pinaceae Spreng. ex F. Rudolphi |
| subfamily | Pinoideae Link |
| genus | Pinus L. - pine |
| subgenus | Pinus L. - hard pines |
| section | Pinus |
| subsection | Pinaster |