Shrub to 65 cm tall. Branchlets tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves mostly divided into 3 short lobes towards tip, sometimes simple, terete, 10-16 mm long, acute or pungent, very minutely scabrous or ±glabrous; lobes to c. 6 mm long. Inflorescence globose, terminal, sessile, c. 8-10 mm diam.; involucral bracts ovate, acuminate, glabrous outside, fringed with hairs, tomentose inside; cone scales ±obovate, acuminate, villous outside; tip and inner surface glabrous. Flowers c. 10 mm long, yellow, hirsute. Pollen presenter ±fusiform, c. 3 mm long, with short, erect or slightly reflexed hairs; brush hardly differentiated from a short, attenuate, basal part. Cones globose, c. 12 mm diam. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
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