Japan Flora: Upright shrub or small tree; branchlets slender, pendulous, triangular; leaves spreading, acicular, 12-25 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, straight, slender, gradually narrowed into a short spine, with a white deep furrow above; cones globose, 6-9 mm. in diameter, purplish black, slightly glaucous when young. Hills and mountains;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea and n. China.