Dioecious or monoecious, lignotuberous, depauperate, erect or suberect shrub 0.5-2 m high. Bark smooth. Branchlets ascending, to 12 cm long; articles 6-8 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm diam., smooth, glabrous; phyllichnia rounded (often only slightly so); teeth 5-7, erect, slightly overlapping when young, 0.2-0.5 mm long, often marcescent at apex. Male spikes shortly elongate, moniliform, 4-10 mm long; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.7-0.9 mm long. Cones very irregular, shortly cylindrical, on slender peduncle 3-7 mm long; cone body 8-11 mm long, 5-7 mm diam.; bracteoles smooth, obtuse to truncate with tiny mucro, pyramidal protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Samara c. 3 mm long, dark brown.
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