Spreading shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, densely hairy. Leaves simple, 6-21 cm long; petiole not well-differentiated; lamina ±linear-oblong to oblanceolate, flat, thick, obscurely veined; apex obtuse and ending in a hard, sharp point; immature leaves densely hairy, glabrescent. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal or axillary, sessile, often densely clustered, 25-30 mm diam.; involucral bracts few to many, elliptic, acute, tomentose to villous; cone scales mostly narrowly ovate or linear, subulate, densely-villous to plumose. Flowers 10-15 mm long, whitish to yellow or cream, glabrous. Pollen presenter c. 3 mm long, fusiform, not constricted, ±glabrous, without a distinct brush; basal part sometimes slightly swollen. Cones ovoid to ±globose, c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ±ovoid, beaked, c. 2-3 mm long, villous.
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