Small tree, 5-10 m tall, to 10 cm diam. Foliage buds c. 3 mm long but with the primary bud scales up to 12 mm long and curling sharply outward with bluntly rounded apices, the secondary scales much shorter, broader, and rounded. Juvenile leaves up to 26 by 1.2-1.5 cm. Adult leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 11-22 cm by 8—10(—13) mm, acute or slightly rounded at the apex, narrowing gradually more or less to a petiole, cuticle thick, often with five vascular resin canals, sharply bent at the base so as to hang downward, midrib above 0.4 mm high and 1 mm broad with indistinct margins, midrib beneath drying to a channel below. Pollen cones in groups of three, sessile or with a 2 mm peduncle. Primary pollen cone bud scales 2 mm wide. Receptacle formed by two fertile bracts and a third shorter sterile bract crowded more or less to one side between the other two. Seed 11-12 by 6-8 mm.
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