Herbs, erect, 1-2 dm, tomentose to floccose, grayish. Stems: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.3-0.6 dm, tomentose to floccose. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, tomentose; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate or reniform, 0.7-1.2 × 0.7-1.2 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose and greenish adaxially. Inflorescences narrowly cymose, infrequently distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 5-15 × 5-10 cm; branches tomentose to floccose; bracts 0.5-2 × 0.5-1 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, campanulate, 1-2 × 1-2 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, spreading, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 0.8-1.2 mm; perianth ochroleucous, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl ovate, slightly hastate proximally in fruit, those of inner whorl lanceolate to elliptic; stamens included, 0.4-0.6 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes dark brown, 3-gonous, 1.3-1.5 mm.
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