Tufted spreading shrub to 40 cm tall. Branchlets short, mid-to dark brown; branchlets and leaves densely hairy, glabrescent. Leaves simple, erect; petiole to c. 15 cm long; lamina flat, linear to linear-obovate, to c. 15 cm long, tapered to petiole, mostly uncinate. Inflorescence globose, terminal, sessile, surrounded by leaves in basal clusters, c. 25-30 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, hairy to ±glabrous; cone scales narrowly obovate, ferruginous-villous; outer scales broader. Flowers to c. 25 mm long, yellowish, glabrous near base, densely silky-hairy towards top. Pollen presenter c. 2-3 mm long; basal part scarcely swollen, minutely papillose or pubescent, very slightly constricted below mid-point, slightly dilated at base of glabrous, apical part, hardly swollen towards apex. Cones ±globose, to c. 12 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
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