Erect or clambering pilose perennials, the stems much branched. Leaves appressed pilose, ovate to elliptic, apically acute to acuminate, basally subacute, 2-5.5 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. wide; petioles 1-4 mm. long. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary stramineous to purplish globose to cylindric heads, 7-11 mm. long, about 7 mm. broad; peduncles mostly branched, 1-6 cm. long, villous. Flowers perfect; bracts and bracteoles subequal, ovate, acuminate to aristate, 1-2 mm. long; sepals 5, oblong, strongly 3-nerved and indurate below, 2.5-3.5 mm. long; stamens 5, united below into a tube, the lacerate pseudostaminodia exceeding the filaments; ovary obovoid to subglobose; style 1, about as long as the globose stigma. Fruit an indehiscent subglobose utricle; seeds dark reddish brown to black, cochleate-orbiculate, 1 mm. broad.
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