Intricate shrub 0.3-2 m high. Branchlets to 3 cm long; articles 1-3 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm diam., glabrous; phyllichnia slightly rounded or flat, often with faint median groove; teeth 5 or 6, erect, 0.3-0.5 mm long. Male spikes of 1-4 whorls at apex of branchlet, 1-5 mm long; anther 0.4-0.6 mm long. Cones shortly cylindrical to globose, as long as broad, spiny; peduncle slender, 2-7 mm long; cone body 8-20 mm long, 8-15 mm diam.; bracteoles thin, acuminate, occasionally with hooked tip, protuberance diverging low on bracteole body, with pyramidal portion nearly as long as bracteole body and with 2-8 mm long coarse yellowish awn with a deciduous hooked tip. Samara 5.0-6.0 (rarely to 10) mm long.
Home