Shrub to c. 2.5 m tall. Branchlets and immature leaves silky-pubescent; branchlets often pale to reddish brown. Leaves simple; petiole short, not well differentiated from lamina; lamina flat, narrowly obovate to oblong-obovate, 4-10 cm long, thick, obscurely veined, often dilated and partly clasping stem, glabrescent; apex obtuse or ending in a hard, sharp point. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal, conspicuous, solitary, to c. 40-55 mm diam.; involucral bracts broadly ovate, acute, ±glabrous to hairy; cone scales mostly narrowly ovate or linear, densely villous. Flowers c. 25 mm long, pale pink to purplish pink, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs at apex of each segment. Pollen presenter c. 5 mm long, spindle-shaped, glabrous from base to below the reflexed-hairy brush. Cones depressed-globose to hemispherical, to c. 35 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 3 mm long, villous.
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