Dacrydium nidulum De Laub.

Tree 10 to 30 m tall, 18-50 cm diam., with numerous branchlets forming a dense crown. Juvenile leaves up to 2 cm long, slightly curved forward, acute, triangular in cross section, 0.2 mm wide and less thick. Adult leaves not crowded (leaf tips distant from adjacent leaves), nearly straight to distinctly curved so that the apex is parallel with the shoot, abruptly acute to blunt, often apiculate, 1-5 mm long but mostly 2-3.5 mm, triangular in cross section, strongly keeled on the back, 0.3-0.7 mm wide and 0.2-0.3 mm thick. Fertile structures terminal but pollen cones may also be lateral. Pollen cones 8-18 mm long and 1-1.6 mm diam. Microsporophylls 0.8-1.2 mm long. Seed-bearing structure subtended by leaves distinctly shorter than normal foliage leaves, as short as 1.5 mm; cone bracts increasing towards the apex where one or two may be fertile, up to 4 mm long and completely surrounding the epima-tium but surpassed by the apex of the mature seed which is 3.5-4 mm long and glossy brown.

A canopy tree in lowland tropical rainforest, often associated with swampy areas, river banks and lake shores; usually at elevations below 600 metres but sometimes ascending to 1,200 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.