Dacrydium pectinatum De Laub.

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 3 m d.b.h.; bark grayish white or pale brown when young, finally gray-brown or red-brown, shallowly fissured; main branches whorled; branchlets drooping, green. Juvenile leaves changing gradually to adult state, needlelike, falcately curved forward, 1.5-2 cm × ca. 0.4 mm, apex tapered. Adult leaves dull green, scalelike, "S"-shaped-linear, 4-angled, 2-5 × 0.4-0.6 mm, stomatal rows (2 or)3-5 per surface, with remote, indistinct, stomatal dots, base decurrent, apex obliquely apiculate or obtuse and incurved. Pollen cones in clusters of 1-3, cylindric-ovoid, 0.8-1.2 cm × 1.5-2 mm; microsporophylls ovate, ca. 1 × 1 mm, centrally keeled, apex subacute. Seed-bearing structures sessile; bracts oblique, not fleshy. Epimatium red and fleshy when ripe. Seed ovoid, 4.5-5 × ca. 3 mm. Pollination Mar-May, seed maturity (Jun-) Oct-Nov.

Scattered large individuals are found in primary rain-forest other than dipterocarp forest from sea-level to 1500 m but mostly below 600 m, while dense stands are found in boggy areas and nearly pure stands of stunted trees occur in shallow sandy soils, especially on so-called 'padangs', and on ke-rangas in heath forest, frequently associated with Gymnostoma; in Sabah also on ultrabasic soils. In Kayangeran For. Res. (Brunei) reported to occur in pure stands in the centre of peat swamps.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.