Lagarostrobos franklinii (Hook.F.) Quinn

Dioecious, rarely monoecious trees to 30 m tall. Branches spreading, forming a dense, pyramidal crown; branchlets pendulous. Juvenile leaves narrowly triangular, appressed with tips divergent, spirally arranged 1.5-5 mm long. Adult leaves scale-like, triangular, obtuse, closely appressed throughout, sharply keeled, 1-2 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide; outer surface with scattered, white, stomatal pores. Male cones cylindrical, 4-6.5 mm long, comprising 10-15 fertile scales. Female cones decurved, c. 4-8 mm long; scales and axis somewhat fleshy at maturity, but green and still resembling tips of vegetative branches. Seeds c. 2 mm long.

Locally frequent in temperate rainforest in wet, low sites in the western, southern and central regions of Tas.; from sea-level to about 750 m.

Can be grown by seedlings.