Evergreen small shrub or tree up to 10-20m, root sprounting, bark gray reddish; branchlets horizontally flattened, thickish, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide; leaves deep green, scalelike, deltoid, obtuse; pollen cones obovoid, yellow, seed cone ovoid, the scales 8, 3 mm long, Cone broadly elliptic  seeds 5-10 on each scale, oblanceolate, 6 mm. long, wing present
Pollination May
Seed maturity Sept
Distribution Hamkyongbuk-do to Ganwondo, endemic to the Korean peninsula 

Taxonomic notes: The current populations are believed to have been rapidly reduced by the human disturbance.  The past records about the population of Mt. Keumgang-san of Kangwon-do (North Korea) were repoted by E. H. Wilson's survey in 1917 and 1918.