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Evergreen green, monoecious, medium sized tree that can reach up to 20 m in height, very irregular shape in adult specimens, pyramidal in younger ones. Trunk up to 1 m in diameter, straight, greyish-silvery bark, which turns dark grey and very fissured in older specimens. Branches usually whorled, arched upwards in the lower parts of the tree, irregular towards the top. Branchlets orange. Leaves acicular, rigid, narrow (10-14 \u00d7 0.16-0.19 cm), grouped in pairs and surrounded by a thin membranous sheath at the base. Male cones subcylindrical (1.5-2 \u00d7 0.5-0.7 cm), subsessile, yellowish, growing in groups toward the end of the branchlets. Female cones ovoid, very short (8-15 mm), solitary or whorled, red. Strobili subsessile, ovoid-conical (4-6 \u00d7 2-4 cm). Scales with depressed apophysis, with a small \u00b1 salient appendix in the centre. 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