Dioecious or monoecious tree 4-7 m high with some buttress roots, a broad flattish crown and rather candelabriform branching habit. Bark fissured, brown. Branchlets stiff, ascending, to 13 cm long; new shoots ferruginous-or white-pubescent; articles acutely angular, 2-4 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm diam., smooth; teeth 0.4-0.7 mm long. Male inflorescences compound (so far as known); spikes 1.5-2 mm long; anther c. 0.5 mm long. Cones short-cylindrical, white-to ferruginous-pubescent especially when immature; peduncle to 5 mm long; cone body 7-10 mm long, 8-10 mm diam.; bracts not striate; bracteoles striate, acute. Samara 7-8 mm long, pale brown.
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