Shrub 1–3 m high; penultimate branchlets woody. Branchlets ascending, pungent, 1.5–3 cm long, with 1 elongate article; article terete, 1.5–3 cm long, 0.6–0.9 mm diam., pubescent when young; phyllichnia rounded with broad median groove; teeth 4, erect, or spreading to recurved on young plants and new shoots, slightly or not overlapping, 0.8–1.3 mm long, ± marcescent. Male spikes moniliform, 1–4 cm long, 4.5–5.5 whorls per cm; anther 0.7–0.9 mm long. Cones ovoid to subglobose; peduncle 4–10 mm long; cone body 15–19 mm long (20–26 mm long including bracteoles), 13–18 mm diam., shortly and densely hairy; bracts glabrous; bracteoles glabrous, acute, protuberance forming a yellowish ridge on bracteole body adnate to near apex, extending as a pungent eccentric awn 4–9 mm long, often with hooked tip. Samara c. 6 mm long, black.
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