Subshrubs, rarely scapose, 1-3 × 1-4 dm, tomentose, grayish to reddish. Stems slightly spreading to erect, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.1-0.3 dm, tomentose. Leaves sheathing up stem 0.5-1.5 cm, 1 per node; petiole 0.1-0.3 cm, tomentose; blade linear to narrowly elliptic, (0.5-)1-2 × 0.1-0.4 cm, grayish-to reddish-brown-tomentose, margins revolute. Inflorescences cymose-umbellate to cymose, rarely capitate, often with involucres racemosely disposed at tips, usually 1-2 × 1-2 cm; branches dichotomous, rarely scapelike, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, narrowly triangular, (1-)2-4(-5) mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, (4-)5-6 × 3-4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 1-2 mm. Flowers (3-)4-5 mm; perianth ochroleucous to rose, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 4, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 5-6 mm; filaments pubescent proximally. Achenes brown, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous.
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