Tufted shrub to 60 cm tall. Branchlets reddish brown to dark brown; branchlets and leaves densely hairy when young. Leaves divaricately divided; petiole to c. 13 cm long; lamina terete, to c. 12 cm long, pungent-pointed, often grey-green, ±glabrescent. Inflorescence ±ovoid, terminal, sessile, c. 30 mm diam., often clustered near base of plant, surrounded but only partially obscured by leaves; involucral bracts acuminate, caducous, villous; cone scales becoming cuneate or obovate, with deciduous apices, villous outside, otherwise glabrous. Flowers to c. 15-20 mm long, cream to yellow, densely villous. Pollen presenter to c. 3 mm long; basal third papillose, slightly swollen and constricted; upper two-thirds swollen, ±cylindrical, glabrous; apex slightly enlarged into a stigmatic cup. Cones ovoid, to c. 20-25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
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