Evergreen tree, monoecious, 20-30 m in height (up to 40 m), irregular shape in older trees, with the crown at the top half of the tree. Young trees pyramidal. Trunk up to 1.5 m in diameter, straight, with thick bark reddish-brown, blackish in the outer layers, highly fissured in ancient specimens. Branchlets light brown, chestnut colour, sometimes reddish-brown. Branches in whorls almost perpendicularly to the trunk, lowest branches somehow sloping, upper branches generally bending upwards. Leaves acicular, semirigid, thick and long (10-27 cm \u00d7 0.2-0.25), dark green. Born in fascicles of 2, basally wrapped by a membranous sheath. Male cones are born grouped at the end of the branchlet, longly ovoid (1-3 \u00d7 0.4-0.6 cm), orange. Female cones in whorls of 2 to 3, ovate (2-2.5 cm), reddish. Strobili sessile or subsessile, ovate-conical in shape and often curved (8-22 \u00d7 5-8 cm). Scales with robust apophysis, very prominent, pyramidal. Each with two seeds (7-9 mm) which are small compared to its wing that is usually 4 times larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11832","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n