Branchlets puberulous. Leaves 0.5-1 cm long, alternate, crowded, erect-spreading, lanceolate, obtuse, rounded at the base, concave, slightly scabrid and puberulous above, thickened at the margin, often slightly incurved at the apex, obtusely convex, somewhat nerve-keeled, minutely tubercled, puberulous and with large impressed glands scattered beneath. Flowers in terminal involucred clusters. Involucral leaves 3-4.5 mm long, oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtuse, scarious, scabrid, ciliate. Peduncles 2.5-3 mm long, puberulous, with lanceolate ciliate bracteoles at the middle. Sepals 3 mm long, lanceolate, obtuse, rounded and puberulous beneath. Petals 5 mm long; blade ovate, obtuse, glabrous; claw 1.5 times as long, linear, sparsely ciliate on the lower half. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 4 mm long, linear, slightly widened at the very obtuse apex, tapering towards the base, ciliate at the middle, with a conspicuous gland behind the apex. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing short ovate processes. Style glabrous.
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