Shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves tomentose. Leaves simple to pinnate, terete, 8-16 mm long, spreading, pungent, minutely scabrous. Inflorescence globose, terminal, solitary, sessile, c. 10 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, subulate, deciduous, tomentose to villous on both surfaces, glabrescent outside; cone scales ovate-acuminate, villous outside. Flowers c. 10 mm long, dull yellow, villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3.5 mm long, with sparse, short, erect hairs. Cones globose, c. 12 mm diam. Nuts c. 3.5 mm long.