Bushy, rigid, much-branched shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall. Branchlets tomentose to ±woolly, glabrescent. Leaves 4-11 cm long overall; petiole 2-5 cm long; lamina pinnate, rigid, terete, pungent, usually divided 2 or 3 times, glabrous; pinnae often divaricate, 4-35 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, solitary, sessile, 20-30 mm long; involucral bracts ±tomentose outside, sericeous inside, lanceolate-acuminate, deciduous; cone scales sericeous, becoming partly glabrous towards tip, acuminate, becoming broad and rounded. Flowers 8-15 mm long, cream, creamy yellow or yellowish white, sometimes tinged with green, hirsute. Pollen presenter fusiform or narrowly ovoid, c. 4 mm long, yellow, sparsely hirsute. Cones narrowly ovoid to ovoid, 10-30 mm long. Nuts c. 3-4 mm long.
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