Densely branched shrub to 60 cm tall. Branchlets densely grey-puberulent. Leaves 4-8 cm long overall; petiole 2-5 cm long; lamina divaricate, terete, rigid, glabrous; first branches trichotomous; later branches dichotomous; pinnae pungent, 2-10 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid to globose, axillary, solitary, sessile, 20-25 mm long; involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous outside, sericeous inside; cone scales broad, circular, prominently acuminate, sericeous, becoming partly glabrous towards tip. Flowers 8-15 mm long, cream, tomentose. Pollen presenter fusiform, 2.5-3.5 mm long, hirsute. Cones ovoid, to 4 cm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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