Class
Order
Genus
Large tree; bark dark grey-brown, peeling in thin flakes, deep pink beneath. Semi-juvenile lvs (on lowest branches of mature trees) somewhat flattened, 3–11 mm long, linear-subulate, acute, incurved. Adult lvs (from coning branches) ± flattened, 5–9 mm long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, ± obtuse, slightly keeled, strongly imbricate, incurved. ♂ strobili 3–5 cm long, narrow-cylindric. ♀ cones towards top of tree, 9–13 cm diam., broadly oblong-ellipsoid or subglobose, green at maturity; emergent part of scale (prickle) 6–10 mm long and c. 2 mm wide at 1/2 way to apex, pungent, directed forward.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]