Shrub to c. 2 m tall. Branchlets pale to reddish brown, slightly pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves varying from 3-9-toothed to deeply 3-5-lobed; petiole to c. 2-5.5 cm long; lamina narrowly cuneate, flat, to c. 2-5.5 cm long, thick, obscurely veined; lobes usually with a sharp or callous point. Inflorescence ovoid to globose, often barrel-shaped, terminal, sessile, solitary, to c. 25-30 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, broadly ovate, imbricate, acute to acuminate, tomentose; cone scales closely imbricate, cuneate, acuminate, becoming truncate, densely woolly. Flowers c. 8-10 mm long, cream to yellow, silky-pubescent. Pollen presenter c. 5 mm long, fusiform, minutely and sparsely hairy along fine ridges. Cones barrel-shaped, c. 28 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, c. 4 mm long, villous.
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