Cryptomeria D.Don
Habit: tree, evergreen
Sexuality: monoecious
Branches: whorled
Important diagnostics: with reddish brown to dark gray bark, with pyramidal or ovoid or columnar crown, with keeled lateral leaf surfaces
Leaves: Position: spirally arranged, 5-ranked
Pollen Cone: Position: axillary
Seed Cones: Position: terminal, solitary, aggregate
Seed Cones: Shape: rosettelike
Seed Cones: Bract scales: triangular
Seed scales: adnate with bracts in basal, shield-shaped, cuneate
Seeds: Shape: irregularly compressed-ellipsoid
Cotyledons number: 2, 3, 4
Germination: epigeal