Shrub 0.2-1 m tall, sometimes multi-stemmed and semi-prostrate. Branchlets and leaves with long, fine hairs, glabrescent. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, 3.5-7.5 cm long overall; petiole 10-22 mm long; lamina flattened, pungent, striate; pinnae linear to broad, entire or lobed, to c. 10 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, with a distinct midrib. Inflorescence axillary, ovoid, sessile, solitary or often clustered in upper leaf axils, 10-15 mm diam.; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, ovate, c. 6 mm long, glabrous; cone scales ovate to lanceolate, mostly villous outside. Flowers 15-20 mm long, yellowish white, yellow, creamy yellow or cream, silky-villous. Pollen presenter c. 3 mm long overall, clavate to turbinate, angled below the brush; brush c. 4 mm long, almost glabrous or with sparse, reflexed hairs. Cones ovoid, to c. 15 mm diam. Nuts 7-9 mm long.
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