Small tree or shrub to 6 m tall. Branches erect. Leaves 2-4 mm long on ultimate branchlets, grey-green to strongly glaucous; dorsal surface rounded. Male cones solitary (rarely paired), ovoid, to 3 mm long. Female cones solitary or several together on stout, apically expanded, often clustered fruiting branchlets, broadly ovoid to depressed-globular, to 20 mm diam., persistent and holding seeds for several years after maturity; cone scales 6, thick, with a broad dorsal thickening or a small dorsal point below apex, united below and forming a thick cone base, incurved after opening; alternate scales reduced; larger scales apically rounded; columella variable, entire, usually short and broad, to 2 mm high. Seeds numerous, almost black; wings 2 or 3, to 2 mm wide.
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