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Leaves opposite, becoming alternate on upper stems and branches, sessile, 1.5–8 x 0.3–2.0 cm., oblong-lanceolate or linear-elliptic, subobtuse at the apex, rounded to auriculate or cordate below, margins somewhat undulate; upper surface green drying olive-green, finely pilose-pubescent above, the hairs long-stalked T-shaped, lower surface silvery-white felted with hairs short-stalked and matted T-shaped.
Phyllaries many, lanceolate, scarious with narrow subhyaline margins, araneose-pubescent outside to glabrescent, the outer phyllaries from c. 2 mm. long, the inner to c. 4.5 mm. long, shortly acuminate-or tapering-pungent.
Stems trailing-ascending, to c. 120 cm. long, much branched, leafy often with leaf whorls in the axils of mature leaves, softly appressed pilose-puberulous; indumentum of short-stalked long-armed T-shaped hairs.
Capitula small, numerous, short-stalked, in many 3–8-capitulate corymbiformly cymose clusters; capitula stalks 1–5 mm. long.
Corollas purple or mauve, 3–5 mm. long, narrowly funnel-shaped, densely pilose-puberulous especially in upper part.
Achenes dark polished-brown or black, c. 1.3 mm. long, narrowly oblong-ovoid, terete, glabrous; pappus 0.
Involucres 3–5 x 3–5 mm., obconic-campanulate.
A diffuse procumbent perennial herb.
