Straggling dioecious shrub, 1-3 m high. Branchlets spreading or drooping, to 23 cm long; articles 20-52 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm diam., smooth, occasionally pubescent in furrows; phyllichnia flat to slightly rounded; teeth 10-11, erect, 1.3-2.7 mm long, marcescent. Male spikes 6-16 mm long, dense; anther 0.5-0.8 mm long. Cones subcylindrical, sessile, glabrous except scattered hairs between bracteoles; cone body 18-25 mm long, 13-19 mm diam.; bracts inconspicuous; bracteole and protuberance fused, greatly thickened, broadly acute when young, becoming thickly obtuse, with or without a tiny deciduous mucro. Samara 5-8 mm long, black.
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