ໄມ້ໂລງເລງຈີນ / Yunnan Catkin Yew

Tree to 30 m tall and 0.8 m dbh with broad, irregular ovoid crown. Leafy branchlets ascending, broadly oblong ovate, axis green in 1st year. Leaves subsessile, dark green abaxially, broadly lanceolate, straight or slightly falcate, obtuse to tapered, 3.5–10.0 cm long, 0.8–1.5 cm wide, leathery, stomatal bands brown or pale yellowish–white when dry, 3–4 mm wide, marginal bands 1.5–2.0 mm wide. Pollen cones clustering 4–6 together, 10–15 cm long. Seed-bearing structures axillary, pedunculate, ovoid. Aril juicy, reddish–purple, glaucous, 2.2–3.0 cm long, 1.4–1.5 cm in diameter. Seed ellipsoid, shortly beaked at apex. Pollination April, seeds October. (Averyanov et al. 2014).