Plants 10–15 cm diam., cespitose; growing points 1+, stems branched below soil surface. Leaf blades to 4 × 2.4 cm. Pedicels not articulated, 10–20 mm. Flowers: calyx subrotate, to 12 mm, to 17 mm in fruit, lobes to 7 × 8 mm (9 × 10 mm in fruit), papery, folded and slightly keeled along each commissural vein; corolla to 15 mm, exceeding calyx; staminal column to 4 mm. Schizocarps 9–10 mm diam., closely invested by calyx; mericarps pale brown, to 3 × 5 mm exclusive of dorsal spurs, spurs to 2 mm. Seeds 2 mm. 2n = 16.
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