Low multistemmed, spreading to erect shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, straight, slightly curved or recurved, 1-5 (-10) cm long, terminating in a pungent point c. 2 mm long. Inflorescence globose, terminal, sessile, 10-15 mm diam.; involucral bracts numerous, curled at apex, linear-subulate; cone scales ovate to narrowly ovate, acute or acuminate, imbricate, glabrous. Flowers 12-20 mm long, yellow or cream to white, villous. Pollen presenter c. 3-5 mm long, broadly turbinate, truncate below the brush, glabrous; brush c. 2-3 mm long, narrowly cylindrical, short and spreading, hirsute, with a glabrous tip, c. 0.5-1 mm long. Cones globose to ovoid, 10-20 mm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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