• Scientific Name: Fokienia hodginsii (Dunn) A.Henry & H H.Thomas
• Ref: Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 49:67. 1911
• Synonyms:
  • Chamaecyparis hodginsii (Dunn) Rushforth
  • Cupressus hodginsii Dunn
  • Fokienia hodginsii var. kawaii (Hayata) Silba
  • F. hodginsii subsp. kawaii (Hayata) Silba
  • F. kawaii Hayata
  • F. maclurei Merr.
• English Common Name: Fujian cypress
• Chinese Common Name: 福建柏 Fújiàn bǎi, 滇福建柏 Diān Fújiàn∙bǎi
• Japanese Common Name: ラオスヒノキ [ラオス檜/老檛檜] raosuhinoki, フッケンヒバ [福建檜葉] fukkenhiba
• Family: Cupressaceae
• Genus: Fokienia
• Distribution: Forests on mountains; 100-1800 m. Fujian, N Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, S Hunan (Yizhang Xian), W Jiangxi (Jinggang Shan), SE Sichuan (Jiangjin Xian), SE Yunnan, S Zhejiang [N Laos, Vietnam].

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h.; bark purplish brown, nearly smooth or irregularly fissured. Facial leaves on young plants bluish green adaxially, narrowly oblanceolate, 4-7 × 1-1.2(-2) mm, with an elevated midvein; lateral leaves almost as long as or slightly longer than facial leaves, usually straight, 5-10 × 2-3 mm, on adult plants small, 2-7 mm, ridged and with a white, depressed stomatal band abaxially. Pollen cones yellowish green, subglobose, 4-5 mm. Seed cones brown when ripe, subglobose, 1.5-2.5 × 1.2-2.2 cm. Seeds 4-5 mm, 3- or 4-ridged; larger wing ovate-dolabriform, ca. 5 mm, smaller wing ca. 1.5 mm or a mere strip. Pollination Mar-Apr, seed maturity Oct-Nov. (Flora of China)