Trees to 25 m tall; trunk to 0.8 m d.b.h.; bark grayish brown or dark brown, irregularly and longitudinally fissured; branchlets pendulous; long branchlets yellowish brown or brown, turning yellowish gray or dark gray, initially puberulent; short branchlets 3-4 mm in diam., densely brownish yellow pubescent; winter buds ovoid-orbicular. Leaves linear, 1.2-3.5 cm × ca. 1 mm, keeled on both sides. Seed cones brownish purple, maturing brown, cylindric-ellipsoid, 2.5-4 × 1.5-2 cm. Seed scales cordate or obovate-reniform, 0.8-1.1 × 1-1.3 cm at middle of cones, densely brown pubescent abaxially, apex emarginate. Bracts exserted, dark brown-purple, broadly lanceolate, obviously reflexed, 1.1-1.5 cm. Seeds light gray, obliquely obovoid, 7-9 mm including wing. Pollination Apr-May, seed maturity Oct.
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