Erect to spreading shrub, 0.5-3 m high. Branchlets ascending, to 30 cm long; articles 9-15 mm long, 0.9-1 mm diam., glabrous; phyllichnia markedly angular with median ridge; teeth 8-10, spreading, 1.8-3.5 mm long, often only c. 1 mm remaining on older articles. Male spikes 3-8 cm long, 8 whorls per cm; anther 1-1.2 mm long. Cones cylindrical to barrel-shaped, pubescent, sessile; cone body 15-50 mm long, 14-20 mm diam.; bracteoles slender, acute or acuminate with small mucro, usually pungent, protuberance nearly as long as bracteole body and very similar in size and shape. Samara 8-10 mm long.
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