Herbs, erect to slightly spreading, 0.5-1.5(-2) dm, floccose to tomentose, greenish to tawny. Stems: aerial flowering stems mostly erect, 0.05-0.3 dm, floccose to tomentose. Leaves basal; petiole 1-3(-5) cm, tomentose; blade rounded to cordate, 1-2(-2.5) × 1-2(-2.5) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, tomentose to floccose and occasionally greenish adaxially. Inflorescences narrowly cymose, distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, diffuse, 5-15(-20) × 5-20(-30) cm; branches inwardly curved distally, floccose to tomentose; bracts 0.5-3 × 1-3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres appressed to branches, cylindric-turbinate, 1-1.3 × 0.5-0.7 mm, floccose; teeth 5, erect, 0.1-0.2 mm. Flowers 1-3(-3.5) mm; perianth pale yellow or yellow, rarely creamy white, becoming red, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly fan-shaped, those of inner whorl oblanceolate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.3 mm.
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