Habit: tree, evergreen

Sexuality: monoecious

Branches: whorled, irregularly whorled

Important diagnostics: with sessile or subsessile leaves

Leaves: Position: spirally arranged

Leaves: Shape: linear or lanceolate, linear-lanceolate

Leaves: Margin: serrulate

Pollen Cone: Position: terminal, clustered

Microsporophylls: scale-like, spirally arranged

Seed Cones: Position: terminal

Seed Cones: Shape: globose, ovoid

Seed scales: connate with bracts, 3-lobed

Seeds: Other Characteristics: with 2 lateral wings

Cotyledons number: 2

Germination: epigeal