Erect bushy shrub, mostly to c. 1.5 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous. Leaves simple, scarcely petiolate; lamina flat, narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, to c. 12 cm long, terminating in a short, acute point, glabrous. Inflorescence turbinate to globose-ovate, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 20-25 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts broadly ovate to almost deltoid, apiculate, imbricate, glabrous; cone scales broadly ovate to almost elliptic, white-velvety, glabrous at apex. Flowers to c. 15 mm long, creamy yellow to creamy green, glabrous. Pollen presenter c. 3-4 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 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 2-3 mm long, villous.
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