Horizontal stems subterranean. Upright shoots treelike, many branched, branchlets numerous and strongly differentiated; annual bud constrictions absent; leaves on main axis below lateral branchlets tightly appressed, dark green, needlelike, 3.5--4.5 X 0.5--0.6 mm, soft. Lateral branchlets round in cross section, 4--7 mm diam.; annual bud constrictions inconspicuous; leaves ascending, in 6 ranks, 1 on upperside, 4 lateral, and 1 on underside, equal in size, linear, widest in middle; margins entire; apex acuminate, lacking hair tip. Strobili sessile, 1--7 per upright shoot, 15--65 mm. Sporophylls 3--3.5 X 2--2.5 mm, apex long, gradually narrowing to tip. 2 n = 68.
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