Plants prostrate, 0.1-0.5 × 0.3-2(-2.5) dm, villous. Leaves basal; petiole 1-2 cm; blade narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5-1.5 × 0.2-0.35(-0.5) cm, thinly pubescent. Inflorescences with involucres in small clusters 0.5-1 cm diam., greenish; bracts 2, sessile, unequal, 1 laminar and oblance-olate, 0.3-1 cm × 1-3 mm, awnless, this opposite linear, acicular, greatly reduced, 0.1-0.2 cm × 0.3-0.6 mm bract terminated by short, straight awn 0.6-1 mm. Involucres 1, greenish, campanulate, 3-ribbed, 0.8-2 mm, faintly corrugate, pubescent; teeth 3, equal, 1.8-2 mm; awns uncinate, 0.6-1 mm. Flowers 1, included to slightly exserted; perianth yellow, cylindric, 1.5-1.8 mm, densely pubescent abaxially; tepals connate ca. 1/ 2 their length, mono-morphic, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse to truncate, entire apically, slightly spreading; stamens 9, slightly exserted; filaments distinct, 0.5-0.8 mm, glabrous; anthers reddish, ovate, 0.2-0.3 mm. Achenes dark brown, lenticular, 2-2.2 mm. 2n = (76, 78), 80, (84).
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