Shrub to 2 m tall. Young branchlets pale brown to reddish brown, silky, tomentose or shortly pubescent, later glabrescent or remaining tomentose. Leaves variously divided, crowded; petiole to c. 2.5 cm long; lamina narrowly terete, to c. 3.5 cm long, grooved, rigid, pungent-pointed, silky or tomentose, glabrescent. Inflorescence globose to ovoid, terminal or in upper axils, sessile, solitary, c. 60 mm diam.; involucral bracts ovate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, villous; cone scales broadly cuneate, minutely mucronate, densely villous. Flowers to c. 25 mm long, mauve-pink to red, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 4 mm long; basal part swollen, constricted then dilated to a globose middle point; apical part tapered to stigmatic cup, glabrous. Cones globose, ovoid or obovoid, to c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
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