Prickly shrub, mostly 15-c. 100 cm tall, to 120 cm diam. Branchlets red-brown, sparsely villous. Leaves pinnatisect; petiole 1.2-5.6 cm long; lamina flat, 1.8-3.6 cm long, pungent-pointed, sparsely villous, glabrescent; lateral pinnae dichotomously or trichotomously divided. Inflorescence transversely ellipsoidal to globose, terminal or axillary, sessile, solitary, to c. 30 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts broadly ovate to ovate, imbricate, glabrous; cone scales narrowly ovate to ovate, villous outside on lower half. Flowers to c. 15 mm long, yellow, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 3 mm long; basal part papillose, scarcely swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup, c. 3 mm long. Cones transversely ellipsoidal to globose, to c. 22 mm diam. Nuts villous, ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long.
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