Habit: tree, evergreen

Sexuality: monoecious

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

Important diagnostics: with an abaxial resin gland

Leaves: Position: 4-ranked, decussate

Leaves: Shape: scale-like

Seed Cones: Position: terminal, solitary

Seed Cones: Bract scales: apex reflexed or upcurved or cuspidate

Seed scales: decussate

Seeds: Other Characteristics: wingless

Cotyledons number: 2