Dacrycarpus cinctus (Pilg.) De Laub.

Often flat-crowned tree up to 33 m, 20-90 cm diam., or a shrub 2-4 m tall. Leaves of primary shoots spreading slightly, straight or more often curved forward, 5-6 mm long on young plants, becoming 3-4 mm long on adult plants and 2-3 mm long at the base of foliage shoots and fertile structures. Leaves of juvenile foliage shoots not distichous or perhaps slightly so, linear-lanceolate, the upper half curved forward, 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Leaves on older trees eventually becoming similar to the leaves of primary shoots but somewhat narrower and curved like the juvenile leaves, 2-5 by 0.4-0.6 mm, uniform along a shoot, often glaucous. Pollen cone sometimes on long shoots, lnvolucral leaves resembling the foliage leaves but curved throughout their length, completely surrounding the developing seed with its covering which rises slightly above them when mature, 6-10 mm long. Receptacle bright red when ripe. Seed with its covering 7 mm long and 6-7 mm diam.

In New Guinea extremely common and often dominant, or co-dominant with Nothofagus, Libocedrus, Elaeocarpus and Podocarpus, in mountain forest and mossy forest, on Mt Binaja in orchard-like pure stands with a mossy ground cover, rarely in muddy parts of swamps (Iowasi swamp near Woitape), a canopy tree or sometimes emergent, often thick-trunked, the foliage glaucous or not, 1800-2850 m, occasionally as high as 3600 m, in Ceram from 1300-3000 m, in Celebes reported as low as 900 m.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.