Stems spreading or ascending, densely branched, forming low broad clumps, 1.5-3(-4.5) dm. Leaves: blade ovate-oval, triangular, or oval to broadly oblong or rhombic-orbicular, 8-30 mm, base acute to subtruncate, margin entire or less commonly irregularly dentate, grayish scurfy. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or rarely some short stipitate (stipe to 2 mm), ovate to obovate, suborbicular, or cuneate in profile, compressed or thickened, 3.5-6.2 × 3.7-7.2 mm, margin deeply and acutely dentate, faces naked or covered with numerous short to elongate, flattened appendages. 2n = 18, 36, 54.