Japan Flora: Tree; young shoots glabrous or nearly so, brownish; leaves 5 in a fascicle, rather rigid, 5-8 cm. long, about 1 mm. wide, triangular, serrulate with 2 stomatai bands on lateral face; cones short-pedunculate, ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-10 cm. long, the scales rounded and slightly recurved at apex; seeds 12-13 mm. long, wingless. Mountains and hills.
Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). The typical phase occurs in Formosa and China.