Shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets pale brown to reddish brown, tomentose. Leaves simple, 1.8–7 cm long; petiole not discernible; lamina terete, curved, rather thick, grooved above, pungent-pointed, glabrous. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 20–30 mm diam., surrounded by numerous leaves; involucral bracts narrowly ovate to ovate, imbricate, villous; cone scales ±narrowly ovate, villous outside. Flowers to c. 12–15 mm long, pale yellow; tube pubescent; limb glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter c. 3 mm long; basal part minutely papillose, scarcely swollen, slightly constricted below mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part glabrous, furrowed, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup. Cones depressed-globose or depressed-ovate, remaining covered with woolly-grey hairs, to c. 28 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
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