Shrub to c. 1.2 m. Branchlets pale reddish brown to greyish brown, slightly pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves simple; petiole not clearly defined; lamina flat, narrowly cuneate, to c. 6.5 cm long, 3-toothed, pungent-pointed, glabrous. Inflorescence depressed-globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, c. 20-30 mm diam.; involucral bracts broadly ovate, imbricate, acuminate, tomentose; cone scales ovate to narrowly ovate, densely tomentose near apex, becoming villous to fulvous at base. Flowers 22-28 mm long, white (once reported as deep purple), glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 5 mm long; basal part shortly pubescent, swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup. Cones depressed-globose or depressed-obovate, c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 3 mm long, villous.
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