Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets pale brown to greyish brown, silky-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves simple or 1-3 times bifid or trifid; petiole not clearly discernible; segments usually divaricate, terete, 2.5-12.5 cm long, with acute to pungent-pointed apices, glabrous; undivided part 2.5-5.5 cm long. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, erect or drooping, 25-40 mm diam.; involucral bracts red-brown, broadly ovate, imbricate, obtuse or with a short, acuminate point, glabrous or very sparsely hairy, especially near margin; cone scales obovate to cuneate, densely tomentose to villous. Flowers to c. 15 mm long, creamy pink to pale pink or dirty white tinged pink, densely pubescent, with longer hairs near apex. Pollen presenter c. 3.5-4 mm long; basal part papillose or shortly pubescent, swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated to a globose part; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for dilated stigmatic cup. Cones depressed-globose to slightly conical, 20-25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 3 mm long, villous.
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