The hairy gland-covered inflorescence is an interrupted series of dense whorls of flowers.

The inflorescence bears dense whorls of flowers each just over a centimeter long.

Flowers are on a short stem (shortly pedicelled), pale purplish in dense whorls at distant intervals in a long slender raceme.

The spore cones are yellowish-green, 1-2 cm long and 1 cm broad, with numerous scales in dense whorls.

The leaves are arranged spirally, widely spaced on long shoots, and in a dense whorl on the short shoots.

Widely spaced and dense whorls of flowers grow on 1 foot inflorescences, with several inflorescences coming into bloom at the same time.

Dark green bristly foliage arranged in dense whorls around slender brittle stems.

The inflorescence is a dense whorl of several distinctive flowers.

The stem is ringed with dense whorls of up to 40 leaves, each leaf up to 16 centimeters in length.

The alternate leaves usually form dense whorls at the shoot tips, but may clothe entire branches.