Shrub, mostly to c. 1.5 m tall, occasionally taller. Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous. Leaves mostly pinnate to bipinnate, occasionally simple; petiole to c. 5.6 cm long; lamina terete to c. 10.5 cm long, pungent-pointed, glabrous. Inflorescence globose, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 40-45 mm diam.; involucral bracts ovate, pubescent to villous; cone scales broadly cuneate, shortly acuminate, villous outside. Flowers c. 25 mm long, pink, often tinted with mauve, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 4 mm long; basal part shortly pubescent or papillose, dilated, distinctly 4-ridged, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part glabrous, tapered towards stigmatic cup. Cones ovoid to oblong-cylindrical, to c. 18 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4.5 mm long, villous.
Home