Japan Flora: Tree; branchlets yellowish or reddish brown, glabrous or slightly short- pubescent; leaves compressed, 15-35 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, obtuse, green, slightly glaucous while young, slightly narrowed toward base, with 2 stoma tai bands beneath; cones broadly ovoid, 2-3 cm. long, the scales several, truncate and recurved at apex, minutely gland-dotted on back. Moun­tains.

Honshu (centr. distr., Oze, and Zaosan in Rikuzen), often planted for timber.

Larix dahurica Turcz. var. japonica Maxim. Occasionally planted. s. Kuriles and Sakhalin.