Evergreen tree up to 40 m, with wide spreading branches. Leaves green above, white beneath apex rounded and notched, margins somewhat inrolled. Male cones catkin-like borne in clusters near shoot tips. Female cones subterminal, later lateral, erect, cylindrical.

Flowering: April-May.

Family Description
Monoecious, ocasionally dioecious, evergreen or deciduous trees. Leaves linear, sometimes needle-like, borne singly or in clusters on short shoots. Male cones short-lived, ovoid or globose, consisting of scales, each bearing 2 pollensacs on the lower surface. Female cones with 2 ovules on the upper surface of their ovulliferous scales; scales becoming enlarged, woody and spreading at maturity, sometimes with bracts exserted between them. Seeds bearing an ovate-oblong, Membranous wing.

Genus Description
Evergreen trees. Leaves linear, flattened, spirally arranged but distichous due to twisting, borne on a disc-like base, leaving rounded depressions on branches after leaf-fall. Male cones catkin-like, borne in clusters near shoot tips. Female deciduous; bract scales pointed, shortly exserted.
Species description

Tree up to 40m, with wide-spreading branches. Leaves 20-40 x 2mm, green above, white beneath, apex rounded and notched, margins some what inrolled. Males cones 20 x 7mm. Female cones at first ovoid, 1cm, when mature cylindrical, 10-15 x 3.5- 7.5cm; ovuliferous scales 3cm broad. Seeds ovoid, 1cm, bearing a rounded, oblong or spathulate wing, as long as the seed.