Small tree or shrub to 8 m tall, usually multi-stemmed. Branches erect. Leaves 2-4 mm long on ultimate branchlets, green or grey-green; dorsal surface rounded. Male cones clustered, cylindrical, to 5 mm long. Female cones solitary or grouped on stout, apically expanded, often clustered fruiting branchlets, ovoid to globular, apically acute or obtuse, 20-25 mm diam., persistent and holding seeds for several years after maturity; cone scales 6, thick, usually finely regularly tuberculate with tubercles to 2 mm wide, occasionally with a very small dorsal point below the apex, united below and forming a thick cone base, not spreading widely after opening; alternate scales reduced; larger scales apically abruptly obtuse; columella usually thick, entire, 2-4 mm high. Seeds numerous, dark brown; wings 2 or 3, c. 4 mm wide.
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