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Plants perennial, not cespitose, 0.4-1.5 dm; roots unknown. Stems erect, sparsely pilose. Leaves: petiole 0.4-1.4 cm; blade green, elliptic, 2.3-3.5 × 0.7-1 cm, apex acute, pilose. Inflorescences: heads white, subglobose, 7-11 mm diam., not subtended by 2 leaves; bractlets white, slightly ridged abaxially, not crested. Flowers: tube glabrous; perianth lobes white, lanceolate, 3.2 mm, chartaceous, margins entire, apex acuminate. Utricles not seen. Seeds not seen.
Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, elliptic or subspathulate, lamina of the larger leaves c. 2–10 × 1–5 cm. (reducing above on both stem and branches), acute to rather blunt at the apex, cuneate or attenuate to a distinct petiole c. 0.5–3.5 cm. long, subglabrous or with scattered hairs on the superior surface, with appressed hairs chiefly along the primary venation below.
Tepals 4–5 mm. long; outer 2 linear-oblong, rather abruptly narrowed to the slightly denticulate, mucronate apex, 1-nerved, the firm central part near the base finely striate and more or less tomentose; inner 3 progressively slightly shorter, narrower and more narrowly pointed; all very indurate at the base in fruit.
Prostrate or sprawling to ascending herb, to at least 50 cm., branched from the base upwards; stem and branches feebly striate, more or less densely furnished in the upper parts with upwardly appressed, rather long white hairs, becoming glabrescent with age.
Staminal tube c. 3 mm. long, divided to c. half way, with only a short blunt tooth or knob on each side of the antheriferous tooth.
Ovary at anthesis c. 1.5 mm. long; style very short, stigmas filiform.
Seeds ellipsoid, c. 1.25 mm. in diam., brown, faintly reticulate.
Capsule shortly ellipsoid, c. 1.5 mm. long.
