Shrub to c. 1.5 m tall, often sprouting from a lignotuber. Branchlets pale to mid-reddish brown, mostly glabrous. Leaves simple; petiole narrowed from lamina base, usually c. 5 cm long; lamina oblong-spathulate to ±linear, flat, thick, to c. 16 cm long, obscurely veined to almost veinless, glabrous; apex obtuse and ending in a hard, sharp, straight or hooked point. Inflorescence ±globose, often slightly flattened, terminal or in upper axils, sessile, mostly solitary, to 40-50 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, ovate, acute, glabrous except for a ciliate margin; cone scales mostly narrowly ovate or linear, ±villous. Flowers 10-15 mm long, creamy yellow to pale yellow, villous towards tips of tepals, otherwise glabrous. Pollen presenter c. 3 mm long, glabrous, fusiform, slightly dilated at base. Cones ±globose, slightly flattened, c. 25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, c. 3 mm long with a persistent beak, villous.
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