Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Branches erect. Leaves 2-3 mm long on ultimate branchlets, dark green; dorsal surface prominently but not acutely keeled. Male cones not seen. Female cones solitary or clustered, on stout, often clustered fruiting branchlets, broadly ovoid to depressed-globular, 20-25 mm diam., persistent and holding seeds for several years after maturity; cone scales 6, thick, with a small dorsal point below apex, separating almost to the base, incurved after opening; alternate scales reduced; larger scales apically contracted; columella large, broadly 3-lobed, 3-5 mm high. Seeds numerous, dark brown; wings 2 or 3, 2-3 mm wide.
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