The green branchlets, resembling long pine needles, are jointed at the nodes, each bearing a rosette of tiny, scale-like leaves. The flowers are unisexual in catkins.
Male flowers are at the end of the branchlets and females in the axils.
The fruit is woody, round and conelike in appearance. F. Old World Tropics, Native to Guam. This tree grows well on the savannah, but is prevented from reaching a large size due to periodic grass fires. Recent conservation efforts to stop erosion in exposed clay areas of savannah have been facilitated by mass planting of.