Small tree or shrub to 6 m tall. Branches fastigiate. Leaves 4-8 mm long on ultimate branchlets, green or subglaucous; dorsal surface prominently but not acutely keeled. Male cones clustered, ovoid to obovoid, to 3 mm long. Female cones solitary or clustered on moderately thick fruiting branchlets, usually depressed-globular, 20-30 mm diam., persistent and holding seeds for several years after maturity; cone scales 6, thick, with a small dorsal point near apex, not separating near base, remaining incurved after opening; alternate scales reduced; larger scales apically tapered or obtuse; columella 3-lobed or 3-angled, 1-4 mm high. Seeds numerous, dark brown; wings 2 or 3, 2-4 mm wide.
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