Erect shrub to c. 2 m tall with short, stiff branches. Leaves c. 1 mm long, ridged, in 4-5 rows, closely overlapping, thick, tip curved. Rarely grown ornamentally but sometimes offered in the nursery trade as a botanical novelty.
Tas (Mountains).
ACT: Australian National Bot. Gds. TAS: Royal Tasmanian Bot. Gds.
Source: (1995). Podocarpaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 1, Ferns, conifers & their allies. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Microstrobos niphophilus)
