Dioecious shrub, erect to spreading, 2-3 m high. Branchlets ascending, to 26 cm long; articles 6-11 mm long, rarely to 16 mm, 0.9-1.4 mm diam., smooth, glabrous; phyllichnia flat or slightly rounded; teeth 8-10, erect to slightly spreading, not overlapping, 0.3-0.6 mm long. Male spikes 0.5-2 cm long, 10-16 whorls per cm; anther 0.5-0.9 mm long. Cones cylindrical, occasionally irregular, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, sessile or on peduncle to 3 mm long; cone body 8-15 mm long, 7-9 mm diam.; bracteoles broadly acute to obtuse, pyramidal protuberance separating near base of bracteole body and with a deciduous slender yellowish awn, usually pungent, 2-5 mm long, with hooked or curved apex. Samara 3-4 mm long, red-brown.
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