Erect shrub or small tree to c. 5 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, hoary at first, glabrescent. Leaves pinnately divided into narrow segments, occasionally simple; petiole to c. 7 cm long; lamina flat, to c. 11.5 cm long, acute, hoary at first, glabrescent; lateral pinnae simple or variously subdivided. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 40-45 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts broadly ovate to ovate, imbricate, tomentose; cone scales broadly ovate, velvety to villous on upper half, glabrous inside, with longer hairs on lower half outside. Flowers to c. 16 mm long, silvery white, creamy white or grey-white, densely silky-villous, longer towards apex. Pollen presenter to c. 4 mm long; basal part swollen, densely papillose, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup. Cones ±globose, to c. 20-25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4 mm long, villous.
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