Japan Flora: Branches glabrous, the scale leaves scattered on long shoots and crowded at the top, the ordinary leaves narrowly linear, 8-12 cm. long, about 3 mm. wide, lustrous, deep green, thickish, obtuse and slightly emarginate; cones 8-12 cm. long, with numerous scales, about 2.5 cm. wide, the exposed part transversely narrow-rhombic with reflexed upper margin and rather thick incurved lower margin; seeds about 12 mm. long. Mountains.
Honshu (Iwashiro and centr. distr. westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; often planted.