Herbs, matted, scapose, 0.01-0.1 × 1-4 dm, villous to silky-tomentose, greenish. Stems matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.01-0.1 dm, villous to silky-tomentose. Leaves basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts, or cauline, 1 per node, sheathing nearly entire length of stem; petiole 0.04-0.07 cm, silky-tomentose; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 0.3-0.4 × 0.07-0.1 cm, margins plane or slightly thickened. Inflorescences capitate, 0.5-0.8(-1) cm; branches absent; bracts 4-5, semileaflike, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 × 0.3-0.4 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 2-4 × (4-)5-8 mm, rigid, tomentose; teeth 7-10, spreading, 1.6-2.2 mm. Flowers 3-4 mm; perianth white to rose, pilose; tepals connate proximal 1/4, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments glabrous. Achenes light brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous.
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