Shrub to c. 1 m tall, to c. 1 m diam. Branchlets grey or pale brown to reddish brown, villous. Leaves trifid or, occasionally, simple; petiole 2-8 mm long; lamina terete, 10-18 mm long, pungent-pointed, villous. Inflorescence globose, sometimes slightly depressed, terminal, sessile, solitary, 40-45 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts ovate, villous outside; cone scales ±spathulate to almost linear, villous outside. Flowers to c. 25 mm long, pink, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long; basal part papillose, swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated into globose part; apical part tapered to stigmatic cup, glabrous. Cones ±globose, c. 15 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4 mm long, villous.
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