Description

Evergreen, coniferous tree, up to 35 m. Bark smmoth, brown. Braches more or less horizontal, brachlets arranged in a plane, pendulous, green, slender, flattened, ca. 1 mm wide. Leaves light green or gray-green, densely appressed, scale-like, dimorphic, 1-1.5 mm long, apex pointed; facial pairs with a linear abaxial gland; lateral pairs folded face-to-face, overlapping basal part of facial pairs, ridged abaxially. Pollen cones ellipsoid or ovoid with 10‐14 microsporophylls. Seed cones dark brown when ripe, globose, 8-15 mm across in diameter, cone scales 6-12, each fertile scale with 3-6 seeds. Seeds light brown, lustrous, flattened, ovate-rhombic or suborbicular.