Low shrub c. 45 cm tall. Branchlets short, suckering from thick, underground stems, pale brown to grey, villous to tomentose. Leaves mostly pinnately divided in the upper part into 2-5 broad lobes, rarely simple; petiole to at least 15 cm long; lamina flat, linear to linear-lanceolate, oblanceolate or broadly linear, 10-40 cm long overall, minutely scabrous, villous on both surfaces at first, glabrescent; apices acute, sometimes slightly uncinate; venation prominent. Inflorescence ovoid to ellipsoidal, terminal, sessile, solitary or somewhat clustered, often borne near ground level, to c. 40 mm diam., frequently obscured by leaves; involucral bracts ±spathulate, villous; tips acute to acuminate, deciduous; cone scales similar to involucral bracts but somewhat narrower. Flowers 15-20 mm long, white or pink, silky-hairy. Pollen presenter c. 3 mm long, very narrowly ovoid to fusiform, scarcely constricted, gradually tapered to a slightly expanded, stigmatic cup. Cones ovoid, to c. 25 mm diam. Nuts villous; mature nuts not seen.
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