Shrub to 1.7 m tall. Branchlets pale brown to reddish brown, pubescent. Leaves simple, sessile or petiolate; lamina flat or slightly concave, 8-35 mm long, glabrous; apex rounded, terminating in a straight, sharp or recurved point. Inflorescence a dense spike, solitary, terminal or mostly clustered towards end of branchlets on very short lateral shoots, to c. 20 mm long, surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts few, lanceolate with ciliate to villous margins; cone scales villous on both surfaces or inner surface glabrous. Flowers 10-15 mm long, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter ±fusiform, 1.5-2 mm long, slightly constricted below the mid-point; basal area covered with minute, reflexed hairs, sometimes glabrescent; apical part glabrous, terminating in a minute stigmatic cup. Cones cup-shaped, to c. 10 mm long. Nuts villous, ovoid, beaked, 2.5-4 mm long.
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