Plant: shrub or tree; multi-trunked at base, 1-4(-10) m tall; dioecious or rarely monoecious. STEMS: short shoots terete; bark gray Leaves: usually tricussate, closely appressed, scale-like; gland obvious; margin denticulate or serrulate under magnification Cones: POLLEN CONES terminal, 2-3 mm long, oblong; SEED CONES terminal, (7-)10-12(-16) mm long, spheric to ovoid bluish, maturing brown-blue to usually red-brown second year, dry, hard, fibrous; Fruit: SEEDS 1(-3) per cone, 5-7 mm long, pointed, angled, brown Misc: Dry slopes and flats; pinyon-juniper woodland, Mojave desertscrub; 450-1200 m (1500-4000 ft); Nov-Feb REFERENCES: Bartel, Jim A. 1994. Cupressaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27, 195-200.