Actinostrobus occurs as genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are trinity mintage in the genus, whole endemic to southwestern Western Australia. A virtually all widely utilized most common title is cypress-pine, the title shared out per closely related genus Callitris.

It is shrubs or small trees, reaching 3-8 m tall. A leaves are evergreen and scale-rather, except immature seedlings, in which it is needle-rather. A leaves come intended inside sextet rows along a sprig, inside alternating whorls of triad.

A male cones come small, Three-6 millimeter hanker, & are placed at a tips of the sprig. the female cones beginside likewise invisible, maturing inside 18-20 months to One-both cm hanker & wide, globose to intense-oviform, using Sise heavy, woody scales, intended in two whorls of trine, & a farther 9-15 thinly, infertile radical scales. the cones remain closed on the trees for several years, opening simply fallowing existence scorched by a bushfire; this then releases a seeds to grow on the freshly clear burnt ground.

A nighest relative of Actinostrobus is Callitris, which is much further far flung, occurring inside virtually all of Australia, and differs inside its cones lacking a radical whorls of little unfertile scales.

A wood of Actinostrobus is lightly, easy & redolent, however a plants come as well little for any important apply. It is at times planted when decorative bush, however their utilize is restricted per high risks imposed by their super high inflammability around bushfires.