Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 1·25 m. diam., bark dark, falling in thick flakes. Juveniles with slender, flexuous, divaricating branchlets, lvs brownish, 5-10 × 1-2 mm., acute. Adults with lvs 1-1·5 cm. × 1-2 mm., subdistichous, linear, straight to subfalcate, obtuse, often apiculate, coriac., dark green, ± glaucous below. Male strobili in spikes, 3-5 cm. long, 10-30 per spike, ┴ axis; apiculus subacute. Ovules 3-10 per spike c. 4 cm. long, on short axillary branchlets; peduncle not swollen. Seeds 5-9 mm. long, subglobose, apiculus obtuse; black, drupaceous.