Erect shrub 2-3 m tall. Branchlets and leaves hoary to ±silky, glabrescent. Leaves 3-11 cm long overall; petiole 2-5 cm long; lamina terete, pinnately divided, not rigid; pinnae usually divided once or twice, acute or obtuse, 2-18 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, sessile, solitary or in clusters of 2-4, 10-25 mm long; involucral bracts ±hairy on both surfaces, narrowly triangular, acute; cone scales ferruginous-velvety, glabrescent, broadly ovate, acuminate. Flowers 9-12 mm long, white to pale cream, appressed-silky. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3-4 mm long, with short, ascending hairs. Cones ovoid or sometimes globose, 15-40 mm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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