Slender dioecious shrub, 3-5 m high. Bark smooth. Branchlets drooping to spreading, to 27 cm long; articles terete, 13-20 mm long, 0.8-1 mm diam., usually with a faint waxy bloom, glabrous; phyllichnia rounded to sometimes angular; teeth 7 or 8, spreading to recurved, often slightly overlapping, 0.7-1.1 mm long, often marcescent. Male spikes moniliform, 5-10 cm long, 3.5-4.5 whorls per cm; bracteoles persistent; anther 0.8-1 mm long. Cones cylindrical; peduncle 2-15 mm long; cone body 12-15 mm long, 8-10 mm diam.; bracteoles obtuse, pyramidal, protuberance shorter than bracteole body. Samara 4-5 mm long, dark brown.
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