Erect shrub to 0.8 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, ±glaucous. Leaves narrowly obovate, 5-12 cm long overall, 1.5-10 mm wide, usually rather strongly curved, flattened, recurved at apex, obtuse or with a short, straight or curved point, thick, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, solitary, sessile, ovoid to globular, to 25 mm long; involucral bracts numerous, linear-subulate, glabrous; cone scales broadly obovate, acuminate, glabrous towards apex, ±hirsute at base. Flowers to 3.5 cm long, grey-pink or mauve to almost white, densely villous. Pollen presenter 4-5 mm long overall, narrowly turbinate below brush; brush ridged, c. 3 mm long, with short, spreading hairs. Cones ovoid, c. 25 mm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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