Dioecious or monoecious slender, erect shrub 1-2 m high. Bark smooth. Branchlets ascending, to 20 cm long; articles 5-11 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm diam., smooth, glabrous; phyllichnia rounded; teeth 5-7, erect to slightly spreading, not or slightly overlapping when young, 0.2-0.5 mm long, not marcescent. Male spikes moniliform, 0.2-2.5 cm long, c. 5 whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.7-0.8 mm long. Cones cylindrical, on peduncle 4-7 mm long; cone body 10-13 mm long, 7-8 mm diam.; bracteoles broadly acute to obtuse with tiny mucro, pyramidal protuberance much shorter than bracteole body, with obtuse apex. Samara 3.0-3.5 mm long, mid-brown.
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