Low shrub, usually less than 1 m tall. Branchlets red-brown, pubescent. Leaves crowded, pinnate; some pinnae further divided; petiole to c. 13 mm long; lamina terete or grooved, to c. 20 mm long, with an acute apex, slightly scabrous, slightly hairy, mostly glabrous. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal or on short axillary branches, densely clustered towards tips of branchlets, sessile, solitary, to c. 40 mm diam.; floral leaves numerous; involucral bracts ovate-acuminate, sparsely hairy; cone scales obovate to spathulate, imbricate, villous on lower half outside; apices reddish, glabrous. Flowers to c. 18 mm long, pink, glabrous. Pollen presenter to c. 6 mm long; basal part papillose to shortly pubescent, dilated, constricted above mid-point then dilated into globose part; apical part glabrous, tapered to the slightly swollen, stigmatic cup, to c. 6 mm long. Cones ±globose, c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4 mm long, villous.
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