Annual herb 15-30 cm tall, erect, hardly to densely branched; stems with crispate spreading hairs.. Leaves narrowly obovate or subpanduriform, 3.3-6.3 cm long, 0.8-1.8 cm wide, base cuneate to rounded, margins subentire, apex obtuse or acute, thinly pubescent, glandular.. Capitula few to many in terminal lax corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula with ascending and spreading hairs; involucres hemispherical, 3-5 mm long, 4-7 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 2-3-seriate, herbaceous, narrowly ovate, obtuse to acute, pubescent and glandular, the inner 3-veined, purple at the apex and on margins, 4-4.5 mm long.. Corolla 5.5 mm long, purple, densely hairy with long multicellular glandular hairs throughout its length, those on the upper parts of the lobes purple-tinged, lobes 2 mm long.. Achenes turbinate, 1.5-2.2 mm long, obscurely obtusely 5-angled, minutely ascending-pubescent, crowned with a few black or brownish scales to 1.5 mm long; pappus absent.
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