Low tufted shrub to c. 80 cm tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves slender, terete, simple, 5-18 cm long, obtuse or with a short, straight or sometimes curved tip. Inflorescence ±ovoid, terminal, solitary, sessile, c. 15 mm long; involucral bracts usually numerous, rigid, subulate, glabrous; cone scales prominently striate, ±acuminate, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers c. 10 mm long, cream, densely hirsute. Pollen presenter c. 3.5 mm long overall, turbinate below the brush; brush c. 1.5-2 mm long, with ±distinct, spreading hairs. Cones ±globose, 15-20 mm long. Nuts c. 2.5 mm long.
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