Low, spreading shrub, mostly less than 1 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, pubescent. Leaves ternately to pinnately divided, erect; petiole to c. 3-12 cm long; lamina flat, to c. 1.5-7.5 cm long, striate, acute to pungent-pointed, glabrescent; lateral pinnae often divaricate. Inflorescence globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 15-20 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts broad, acuminate, pubescent; cone scales broadly cuneate, villous to very woolly on outside, except for acuminate apex. Flowers to c. 10 mm long, yellow, glabrous except for a short tuft of apical hairs on each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 2-3 mm long; basal part minutely papillose, scarcely swollen, constricted near mid-point then slightly dilated; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup. Cones ovoid to globose, to c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4.5 mm long, villous.
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