above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins (1-)2-5, strongly arcuate ascend-ing, without a submarginal undulate vein, the intervenal areas smooth, the vein-lets not evident, chartaceous to thinly succulent, concolorous, the hairs above strigose, appressed, golden colored or white, subulate, 0.2-0.7 mm long, the hairs beneath as above but mostly on costa and veins, the margin somewhat thick, minutely ciliolate or with short, thick, ascending hairs; stipules to 4 mm long, truncate, the setae 3-5, erect, the hairs stiff, to 1.7 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, 0.5-4.0 cm in diam., the uppermost leaves involucrate, the stem im-mediately below the involucre of leaves with numerous, weak, reflexed hairs. Flowers subsessile, the hypanthium oblong, shorter than the calyx, minutely puberulent; calycine cup 0.2-0.5 mm long, the lobes 4, subulate, erect, slightly spreading, 1.6-3.2 mm long, usually slightly unequal, the hairs slender, stiff, to 0.8 mm long, with a minute gland in the sinus of 2 adjacent lobes; corolla white, the tube slender, 0.6-0.7 cm long, ca. 0.2 mm wide, minutely puberulent to glabrous outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, oblong, 1.0-2.2 mm long, obtuse; stamens 4, exserted, the anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long, the filaments threadlike, to 1.8 mm long, attached at the mouth; style filamentous, about as long as the tube, the stigmas 2, 0.3-1.0' mm long, slightly wider than the style. Fruits not seen.
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Herbs to subshrubs, 0.5-50.0 cm tall, branched or unbranched, the stems slender, the hairs appressed, deflexed, the nodes well spaced. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, occasionally ovate oblong, 0.5-3.0 cm long, 0.2-0.6 cm wide, acute or deltoid at the apex, acute at the base, the costa slender, plane or immersed
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