Erect, bushy shrub to c. 2 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate; petiole c. 3.5-5.5 cm long; lamina terete, 6-10.5 cm long, acute, glabrous. Inflorescence globose, terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate, solitary, to c. 40 mm diam.; involucral bracts small and narrow, ±acuminate, glabrous or with a short marginal fringe of hairs; inner ones broader; cone scales numerous, imbricate, broad, truncate, tomentose to villous except for deciduous apex. Flowers to c. 12 mm long, yellow, shortly silky, with longer tufts of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 3.5 mm long; basal part swollen, minutely pubescent, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part scarcely swollen, glabrous. Cones ovoid to globose, to c. 25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4 mm long, villous.
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