Description
A single trunked tree to 20m in height,native to Taiwan and Japan(Ryukyu Islands).It occurs in lower montane to montane forests,usually as a understorey tree from 1,500 to 2,500m in Taiwan in the Flora of Taiwan Vol.1(1994)but the japanese populations considered to be P.macrophyllus var.luikiuensis Warb.Have been included in P.fasciculus byFarjon(2010).The buds are 4-5x2mm,the scales lanceolate,spreadig.The leaves are thin and flexible,bright green above and paler beneath,linear-lanceolate,50-100(-120)mm long and (4-)6-10mm wide(up to 160mm long and 14mm wide on young plants)with a short stalk and an acuminate tip, midrib prominently raised on both leaf surfaces.The pollen-cones are solitary on a slender stalk 6-12mm long and have a fleshy,red receptacle 9-16x10-12mm.The seed ovoid,9x7mm(including the green epimatium that ripens to purple-green).Hardiness zone 8.