Divaricate shrub to c. 1.5 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves 3-8.5 cm long overall; petiole 12-34 mm long; lamina trichotomous, bipinnate or tripinnate, terete, rigid, pungent; ultimate pinnae variable, usually 1-2 (-25) mm long. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal or axillary, solitary, sessile, c. 25 mm long; involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous outside, silky inside, deciduous; cone scales broad, acuminate to acute, silky-villous at base; tip glabrous. Flowers c. 15 mm long, cream with a yellow apex, villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 4 mm long, yellow, sparsely hirsute. Cones globose, c. 20 mm long. Nuts c. 3.5 mm long.
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