Tree 4-24 m tall, 20-30 cm diam. Foliage buds 4-8 mm long. Juvenile leaves linear-lanceolate, 11-20 by 1.1-1.6 cm, narrowly acute. Adult leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-12 cm by 7-14 mm, acute, narrowed at the base more or less to a 2-3 mm petiole, slightly revolute, with a continuous upper hypoderm, sometimes with five vascular resin canals; midrib above a low ridge 0.2-0.5 mm wide and 0.1-0.2 mm high. Buds for pollen cones sessile or on a 1 mm peduncle. Pollen cones 1.5-2 cm by 2 mm, clustered to at least four; apex of the micro-sporophyll a tiny triangular spur 0.1 mm long. Seed-bearing structure on a 3-12 mm peduncle; receptacle 8-9 mm long, known to turn pink. Seed with its covering 7 by at least 4 mm.
Localized and more or less dominant on several isolated peaks with poor soils in a somewhat stunted rain-forest, 480-1300 m. On ridge in Panti For. Res. over standstone, on Mt Ophir on granite.
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