Dioecious intricate shrub 0.5-3 m high; penultimate branchlets green. Branchlets to 2 cm long; articles terete or angular, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.9-1.2 mm diam., smooth, pubescent in furrows; phyllichnia angular to rounded, with central ridge; teeth 6 or 7, not overlapping, erect or apex slightly spreading, apical portion very thin-textured and marcescent leaving only rounded base, 0.5-0.9 mm long (basal region c. 0.2-0.3 mm long). Male spikes 4-10 mm long, c. 20 whorls per cm; anther c. 0.7 mm long. Cones ovoid to cylindrical, sessile on woody branches; cone body 8-15 mm long, 7-8 mm diam.; bracteoles thick, flat-topped and triangular, divided into 5-8 convex bodies. Samara 3.0-4.0 mm long, sparsely hairy.
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