Shrub or small, sometimes gnarled tree, 2-13 m tall, 15-30 cm diam. Leaves of primary shoots nearly imbricate with the apex often curved slightly inward. Leaves of juvenile foliage shoots distichous, nearly linear. Leaves on older trees similar but soon becoming not distichous and more robust, distinctly keeled on the lateral faces, 3-6 by 0.8-1 mm. Together with primary shoots and foliage shoots are intermediate shoots with leaves 2-5 mm long and triangular or quadrangular in cross section. The intermediate shoots bear foliage shoots and fertile shoots but are also deciduous. Involucral leaves greatly elongated resembling the foliage leaves but more distinctly curved, 5-8 mm long, reaching only the lower part of the seed when it is mature. Ripe receptacle blue or purple. Seed with its covering 6-7 mm long and 5-6 mm diam.
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