The bark is orange-brown weathering greyish, smooth at first, becoming fissured and exfoliating in long strips on the lower trunk on old trees.

[2] The seed cones are 10–15 mm long, pale purple with a whitish wax coating, with four (rarely six) scales arranged in opposite decussate pairs; the outer pair of scales each bears two winged seeds, the inner pair(s) usually being sterile; the cones are borne on a 4–6 mm long peduncle covered in small (2 mm) scale leaves.

[2] The species has a very limited native range of less than 5,000 km2, and is threatened by over-harvesting for its valuable wood and conversion of natural forest to plantations of faster-growing exotic species.

Some areas are now protected in reserves, and a limited amount of replanting is taking place, but an overall decline continues.

[2] It is categorised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species.