Spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 15-30 cm high; penultimate branchlets green. Branchlets ascending, ±pungent, 1-3 cm long; elongate article(s) 1 or 2, terete to subquadrangular, 10-24 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm diam., often pubescent when young; phyllichnia flat or with broad shallow median groove; teeth 4, erect to slightly spreading, overlapping, usually shortly fimbriate, 0.3-0.6 mm long, marcescent. Male spikes 2-5 mm long, dense; anther 0.6-0.7 mm long. Cones inconspicuous, ovoid, irregular, sessile, densely and minutely pubescent, becoming glabrous; cone body 9-14 mm long, 6-9 mm diam.; bracts with deciduous awn c. 1.5 mm long; bracteoles greatly thickened but relatively small, acute, protuberance much shorter than bracteole body, divided into 4-6 small pyramidal bodies. Samara 5.5-7 mm long, very dark brown, with long ferruginous hairs.
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