Tree 6-7m high, with very dense and rounded habit. Bark shallowly fissured, flaking, grey; trunk becoming reddish in upper part. Shoots brown. Buds chestnut-brown, not resinous. Cones ± directed downwards, ovoid, at least when open (all were so). c.4cm long. Scales rather thin; apophyses flattish, pale greyish brown.