Dioecious intricate shrub 0.1-1 m high; penultimate branchlets green. Branchlets to 5 cm long; articles quadrangular, 2-6 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm diam., smooth on faces, verruculose on angles with furrows often becoming open and obvious; phyllichnia angular, very finely verruculose to serrate on angle; teeth 4, not overlapping, erect but apex eventually spreading and marcescent, leaving only rounded base, 0.4-1.3 mm long (dark apex c. 0.3-1 mm long). Male spikes 1.5-3 mm long; anther 0.5-0.6 mm long. Cones shortly cylindrical to ovoid, irregular, sessile; cone body 8-12 mm long, 5-10 mm diam.; bracteoles thick, divided into 6-9 tubercles, rounded or flat-topped with deciduous mucro 0.5-3 mm long. Samara 2.5-5 mm long, hairy.
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