Shrubs or trees dioecious (rarely monoecious), to 8 m, multistemmed (seldom single-stemmed); crown rounded. Bark gray, exfoliating in thin strips, that of smaller and larger branchlets smooth. Branches spreading to ascending; branchlets erect, terete, about as wide as length of scalelike leaves. Leaves light green, abaxial glands elliptic to ovate, conspicuous, exudate absent, margins denticulate (at 20´); whip leaves 3--5 mm, not glaucous adaxially; scalelike leaves 1--2 mm, not overlapping, or rarely overlapping by ca. 1/5 their length, generally flattened, apex acute to obtuse, closely appressed. Seed cones maturing in 1 year, of 1 size, with straight peduncles, globose, (7--)9--10(--13) mm, bluish brown, glaucous, fibrous, with 1(--2) seeds. Seeds 5--7 mm.
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A large shrub or small tree. It grows 12 m high. The leaves are like scales and yellow-green. The fruit are red-brown with a whitish covering.
Dry rocky, gravelly or sandy soils on dry mountain slopes and hills; at elevations from 120-1,200 metres. Locally common in desert scrubland, extending into chaparral and open Pine woodland in somewhat more mesic sites.
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It is a temperate plant. It suits hardiness zones 7-9.
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