Dioecious shrub to small tree, 3–8 m high. Branchlets ascending, to 20 cm long; articles 10–25 mm long, 0.7–1.2 mm diam., verruculose, occasionally pubescent; phyllichnia flat, slightly verruculose; teeth 10–14, erect, 0.3–1.3 mm long, rarely to 1.8 mm long, marcescent. Male spikes 1–8 cm long, 3.5–6 whorls per cm; anther 1.2–2.1 mm long. Cones cylindrical to ovoid, finely white-pubescent to glabrous, often with longer ferruginous hairs when young, sessile or on peduncle to 10 mm long; cone body 15–35 mm long, 15–28 mm diam.; bracts prominent; bracteole and protuberance indistinguishable, very thick, pyramidal, acuminate with rather pungent mucro to 1.5 mm long or occasionally shortly bifid, or bracteole plus protuberance divided into 2 or 3 acuminate to acute bodies. Samara 6–12 mm long, black or very dark brown.
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