Shrub to c. 3 m tall. Branchlets often reddish, usually pubescent towards apices. Leaves simple; petiole very short, indistinct; lamina flat, obovate to broadly elliptic, 4-14 cm long, thick, obscurely veined, glabrous; apex acute, ending in a hard, sharp point. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal, conspicuous, solitary, to 80 mm diam.; involucral bracts broadly ovate, acute, numerous, imbricate, pubescent; cone scales mostly linear, woolly. Flowers c. 35 mm long, pale pink to purplish pink, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs at apex of each segment. Pollen presenter 4-6 mm long; base slightly swollen, glabrous, constricted beneath the spindle-shaped brush which has 8 rows of short, reflexed hairs. Cones depressed-globose to hemispherical, to c. 45 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 3 mm long, villous. Receptacle often persisting after fruit has fallen.
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