Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets curly-hairy and glabrescent, hoary or glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, ±scabrous, to 12 mm long, acute or obtuse, appressed or spreading, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, globose to ovoid in bud, 10-20 mm diam.; involucral bracts numerous, ±persistent, glutinous, imbricate or not, obovate to ovate, acuminate to acute, glabrous; cone scales narrowly ovate to ovate, densely villous at base. Flowers 10-20 mm long, yellow, villous or pilose. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long, fusiform to narrowly attenuate, shortly or sparsely hairy. Cones ovoid, to 20 mm diam. Nuts to 4 mm long.
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