| ≥1 piece |
Description:
Shrub or small tree, up to 7 m; bark gray-brown or reddish-brown, split into flakes off; sprig splay or extended upward, circular or nearly square, annual branches green, two or three years old branches green, yellow or yellowish red. Leaf base fitted to two reverse, strip lanceolate, straight or slightly curved sickle, 3-11 cm long, 6-11 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base gradually narrow, wedge-shaped or wide wedge, there is a very short petiole, margin slightly curved downward, following white stomatal bands of equal width and green belt edge or narrow; branches sprouted leaves longer, usually sickle, rare for straight, apex long acuminate tip, stomatal bands representing green sideband narrow. The male cones spikes 1-3 (mostly 2) ear, 5-6.5 cm long, stamens 2-5 (mostly three anthers). Seeds ellipsoid, when ripe aril bright red, 2-2.5 cm long, diameter about 1.3 cm, the top has a small tip is exposed, base persistent bracts back with longitudinal ridges, stem length 1.3 cm, flat quadrangular shape.
Leaves opposite, arranged in the column, shortly stalked, linear-lanceolate, texture, thick, leathery, straight or slightly curved, 3 to 11 cm long, 11 mm wide and 6 a, apex acute or obtuse, base broadly cuneate edge slightly reflexed, dark green above, the veins bulge below the stripe and green side band-width or nearly as wide pink and white stomatal band.
Dioecious, male cones decussate, arranged spicate, usually 2-4 (or 5-6 dilute 1) Suisheng sprig in the top 5 to 6.5 cm long, each with stamens 2-5 (mostly 3 ) anthers; female cone flowers in the leaf axils year old branches or axillary bud, long stem, there 6-10 of decussate bracts, ovule solitary.
The following year the seeds mature, sagging, elliptic, cystic aril the bag, a 2.5 cm length of 2, 1 a 1.3 cm diameter, apex mucronate, mature aril bright red, base with persistent bracts ; 1 seed stem a 1.4 cm long, flat four prism.
Flowering in early April to mid-May, the female ball-pollination without a timely fertilization, after the February-March pollen tube germination, ovules becoming seed, next May - - June seed maturation.