Habit: tree

Sexuality: monoecious

Branches: whorled, with orbicular scars of deciduous branchlets

Leaves: Position: spirally arranged, opposite, alternate

Leaves: Color: pinkish or reddish when young

Leaves: Nature: leathery

Leaves: Venation: parallel

Leaves: Petiole: flattened

Pollen Cone: Position: axillary, solitary

Pollen Cone: Shape: cylindric

Seed Cones: Shape: globose

Seed Cones: Bract scales: spatulate

Seeds: Other Characteristics: with 1 lateral wing

Cotyledons number: 2