Tree to 50 m. tall and 200 cm dbh. Trunk massive, straight, with long branches horizontal or ascending. Crown broadly pyramidal or domed, becoming flat-topped with age. Bark gray, smooth with resin blisters when young, then fissured, corky and darker with age. Branchlets grooved, yellowish-green to gray-brown, glabrous or with fine blackish pubescence. Buds ovoid to conical, to 10 × 5 mm, slightly resinous, with broadly conical scales, grayish-brown, persisting several years. Juvenile leaves bifid, extremely sharp pointed, present at the base of old trees. Leaves pectinate, nearly 2-3 ranked, spreading outwards and upwards, with a distinct V-like parting, grooved above, keeled below, bright dark green above, glaucous-yellow below; stomata usually absent above, in 12-13 lines below; 1.5-3.5 cm long by 2-4 mm. wide, base twisted, apex obtuse, emarginate or notched. Pollen cones cylindrical, yellowish, solitary and pendant in leaf axils, 2.5-3 cm long. Seed cone ovoid-oblong to conical, apex rounded, green with yellow bracts, maturing yellow-brown, 8-15 cm long by 3-5 cm. wide, resinous; bracts erect and slightly exserted, narrow, diamond-shaped. Seed scales 2-2.5 cm long by 2.8-3.2 cm wide, smooth or longitudinally striated. Seed 6-8 mm long, light brown with a 10-15 mm long brownish wing.

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