Ascending or erect sparsely strigose or glabrate perennials. Leaves sparsely pilose or glabrate, linear to linear-elliptic, apically acute, basally acuminate, 2.5-5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad; petioles 2-6 mm. long. Inflorescences of axillary and terminal stramineous cylindric heads, 6-10 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad; peduncles unbranched, 2-5 cm. long. Flowers perfect, the bracts and bracteoles subequal, ovate, aristate, 1-2 mm. long; sepals 5, oblong, obscurely 3-nerved and indurate basally, 2-2.5 mm. long; stamens 5, united below into a tube, the lacerate pseudo-staminodia exceeding the anthers; ovary subglobose; style 1, 2-3 times as long as the globose stigma. Mature fruit not seen.
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