Herbs, spreading, 0.5-2 dm, glabrous, usually reddish. Stems: aerial flowering stems prostrate to ascending or weakly erect, 0.1-0.3 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: petiole 1-3 cm, tomentose, blade round to reniform, 0.5-1.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, subglabrous or glabrous and green adaxially; cauline: petiole and blade similar to basal leaves. Inflorescences cymose, not distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open, 4-18 × 10-30 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 1-2 × 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres terminal at tips of slender branchlets proximally, not appressed to branches, broadly turbinate, 3-4 × 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 6-8, erect, 0.4-0.8 mm. Flowers 1-2 mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals mono-morphic, obovate; stamens included, 1-1.5 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes light brown, 3-gonous, 1-1.3 mm.
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