Japan Flora: Tree; branchlets densely pubescent with reddish brown short hairs; leaves compressed, 4-angled, acicular, 6-12 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide, obtuse or slightly pointed, dark green, slightly recurved; cones cylindric, 5-8 cm. long, dark purplish, the scales suborbicular, entire or slightly denticulate. Bogs.
Hokkaido, Honshu (Mt. Hayachine in Rikuchu, Sakhalin.
f. chlorocarpa Miyabe & Kudo. Cones green to greenish yellow.