Erect shrub 0.3-1.2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves ±glabrous. Leaves 8-20 cm long overall; petiole 3-5 cm long; lamina terete, acute to pungent-pointed, 2-3-pinnate; pinnae 3-6.5 cm long. Inflorescence narrowly ovoid, terminal, pedunculate, solitary or with 2 arising from near the same point, 3-5.5 cm long; peduncle to 4 cm long; involucral bracts few, velvety, glabrescent, broadly ovate, acuminate; cone scales velvety, broadly ovate, acuminate. Flowers to c. 12 mm long, white to pale cream, appressed-silky-pubescent. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3.5 mm long, with short, ±erect hairs. Cones ovoid to narrowly ovoid, to c. 8 cm long; peduncle usually 3-4 cm long. Nuts c. 3.5 mm long.
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