Divaricately branched shrub, clumps forming through creeping rhizomes. Branches yellowish green, relatively stout and rigid, smooth or scabrous. Leaves very small, up to 3 mm long, ciliolate. Male cone forming axillary clusters, sometimes more like glomerules; anthers stipicate. Female cones sessile, axillary or terminal to short lateral branches; bracts with wide, yellowish, papery, erose margins at maturity.