Dioecious or monoecious shrub, erect to spreading, 0.2-2 m high; penultimate branchlets woody. Branchlets ascending, to 12 cm long; articles terete, 3-6 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm diam., smooth, sometimes waxy, glabrous, or finely pubescent in furrows; phyllichnia angular to markedly rounded, often with minutely serrate median ridge; teeth 5-7, erect, overlapping at bases at least when young, 0.4-0.5 mm long, not marcescent. Male spikes 6-18 mm long, 12-16 whorls per cm; anther 0.7-0.8 mm long. Cones cylindrical, slightly longer than broad, of smoothish outline and tessellated surface, sessile; cone body 12-22 (rarely to 33) mm long, 10-17 mm diam.; bracteoles thick, flat-topped and triangular, divided into 6-8 obtuse or ± acute bodies. Samara 5-6 mm long, glabrous; wing truncate, shorter than body.
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