Larix griffithii Hook. f.

Medium sized tree, bark gray-brown or dark brown, deeply fissured longitudinally; long branchlets initially reddish brown, light brown, or yellowish brown; short branchlets 6–8 mm in diam., nearly smooth, with remnants of bud scales and rings of revolute scales bases; winter buds ovoid-globose or globose, not resinous. Leaves 2.5–5.5 cm × 1–1.8 mm, keeled abaxially and toward base adaxially. Seed cones maturing brown or light brown, cylindric or cylindric-ellipsoid, 5–11 × 2.2–3 cm. Seed scales obovate-square, ± flat, 1.1–1.4 × 1.1–1.4 cm at middle of cones, pubescent toward base abaxially, margin denticulate toward apex, apex truncate or slightly emarginate. Bracts ovate- or obovatelanceolate, longer than seed scales, 5–7 mm at widest part, obviously reflexed. Seeds grayish white, with irregular purplish spots, obliquely obovoid, ca. 10 mm including wing.

Bhutan; China ; India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim); Nepal