Erect, rather narrow trees 5-8 m high. 1 year shoots brownish-green. Needles sloping forwards, light glaucous above and beneath excepting green keel, dense and obscuring shoot on its upper and lower side. Male strobili dead. Cones erect, 8-9 cm long (Specimen A) or c. 4 cm long (Specimen B); scales dark purple and with glistening resin; bract scales included.