Trees to 15(--23)m; trunk to diam., in nature mostly crooked and leaning; crown rounded to flattened or irregular. Bark red-brown to purple-red, deeply furrowed with irregular, elongate, flat, scaly ridges. Branches irregular, spreading-ascending, candelabralike; twigs stout (1-- thick), greenish, aging deep gray-brown to near black, rough. Buds conic-ovoid, pale brown, to 2.5cm; scale margins white-fringed. Leaves mostly 5 per fascicle, ascending or spreading, persisting 3--4 years, 15--3 ´ ca. 2mm, straight or curved, slightly twisted, dull gray-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins serrulate, apex abruptly acute; sheath to 2cm, shed early, base persistent. Pollen cones ovoid, 20--30mm, yellow. Seed cones maturing in 3 years, shedding seeds soon thereafter, persisting to 5 years, lateral, massive, heavy, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid when open, 10--15cm, yellow-to red-brown, lustrous, stalks to 4cm; apophyses thick, angulately dome-shaped, with 5 low convergent keels; umbo central, forming short, curved-tipped pyramid. Seeds narrowly obovoid; body 16--24mm, brown, apically dark brown; wing broad, oblique-tipped, to 15mm.
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A tree. It grows about 8 m high.
Low coastal bluffs. Found in the dry fogbelt zone on eroding, mostly dry slopes; at elevations up to 125 metres, Subspecies insularis is found in ravines and on low ridges; at elevations up to 180 metres.
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It is a Mediterranean climate plant. Botanical Gardens Melbourne
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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