Erect shrub to c. 1.1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves with short, curly hairs, glabrescent. Leaves spreading, simple, terete, 4-14 mm long, obtuse or minutely acutely pointed, straight or slightly curved, very scabrous. Inflorescence ovoid to globose, terminal, sessile, to c. 16 mm diam.; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, ovate, acute to acuminate, glutinous; margins fringed with long, straight hairs; cone scales ovate-acuminate, densely villous on outer surface of base; tips deciduous, glabrous. Flowers c. 15 mm long, yellow, pilose. Pollen presenter ±fusiform, 4.5 mm long overall; brush c. 3-4 mm long, with short, ±erect hairs; tip glabrous. Cones ovoid to globose, to 20 mm diam. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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