Shrub 0.4-1.3 m tall. Branchlets pale brown, hairy when immature, remaining ±tomentose. Leaves once or twice ternately divided; main segments often further divided; petiole 12-25 mm long; lamina flat, 15-40 cm long, ±concave, acute, tomentose when immature, soon ±glabrescent. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 30-35 mm diam.; receptacle elongated; involucral bracts ovate, acute, shortly hairy; cone scales broadly cuneate, minutely mucronate, imbricate, villous, glabrescent near apex. Flowers 25-30 mm long, reddish pink, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs at apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 4 mm long; basal part minutely hairy, constricted above mid-point; apical part glabrous and swollen at base, tapered to a shallow stigmatic cup. Cones ±globose, c. 15-20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
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