Habit: tree, evergreen

Sexuality: monoecious

Branchlets: arranged in a plane, spreading or ascending or drooping, prominently jointed

Leaves: Position: decussate

Leaves: Shape: scale-like, flattened, boat- shaped

Pollen Cone: Position: terminal, solitary

Microsporophylls: with pendulous pollen sacs

Seed Cones: Position: terminal, solitary

Seed Cones: Shape: oblong, ellipsoid-cylindric

Seeds: Other Characteristics: with 2 subapical or apical wings, with unequal wing, apex mucronate

Cotyledons number: 2