Shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Branchlets and leaves pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves ±erect, 4-9 cm long overall; petiole 3-5 cm long; lamina terete, 2-3-pinnate; pinnae acute, usually less than 10 mm long, occasionally to 30 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, axillary, sessile or with a peduncle to c. 6 mm long, solitary, or several clustered together, sessile, 20-35 mm long; involucral bracts few, lanceolate; cone scales acuminate, becoming ±cuneate, ferruginous-velvety. Flowers 6-10 mm long, cream, silky-pubescent. Pollen presenter fusiform, to 3 mm long, with short, sparse, erect hairs, fusiform. Cones ovoid, to 6.5 cm long. Nuts 3-4 mm long.