Description

Evergreen, narrowly conical tree up to 60 m tall. Bark papery. The relatively short, mostly horizontal branches are in whorls around the slender, upright to slightly leaning trunk. The branches are lined with cord-like, horizontal branchlets. The branchlets are covered with small, green, incurved, point-tipped, spirally arranged, overlapping leaves, younger leaves needle like. Male cone oblong-cylindrical, 5-10 cm long, finely teethed. Female cone 10-15 cm long with short bracts. Seeds 3-3.5 cm long and winged.