Tree up to 50 m. or more, trunk up to 1·5 m. diam., often fluted and buttressed at base, bark grey. Branchlets slender, drooping. Lvs of juveniles subdistichous, subpatent, narrow-linear, subfalcate, acuminate, decurrent, 3-7 × 0·5-1 mm.; of semi-adults (often with cones and seeds) seldom > 4 mm. long; of adults 1-2 mm. long, imbricating, more appressed, keeled, subtrigonous, lanceolate-subulate to acuminate, with broader base. Male strobili terminal, up to 1 cm. long, sporophylls bisporangiate, apiculus acute. Seeds solitary, terminal on short branchlets, upper 2-3 lvs distinct from lower, forming a receptacle, red, swollen and succulent in fr. Seeds 4-5 mm. long, broadly ovoid, hardly apiculate, black, nutlike.

n = 10

2n = 20

2n = 20

2n = 20

n = 10