Plants (2–)3–8(–17) cm. Stems usually 0, sometimes 1–4, erect to decumbent; branches 0 or proximal. Leaves basal or cauline, petiolate, distal congested, larger than proximal (if any), largest (25–)33–90 × 7–20 mm; petioles: lengths 2–3 times blade lengths, bases thickened, indurate; capitular leaves (6–)10–20 per glomerule, whorled, mostly spreading, unlike pistillate paleae. Heads terminal in dense glomerules (10–25 mm diam.) of 10–40+ not mixed with leaves, never in axils, ± obpyramidal, 3–5 × 2.5–4 mm, heights 1–1.5 times diams. Receptacles of adjacent heads proximally connate, 0.4–0.7 × 0.5–0.7 mm. Pistillate paleae in 2–4 series, ± vertically ranked, broadly spatulate, 2.5–4.5 mm. Staminate paleae surpassing pistillate, 3–3.9 mm, lengths 0.7–0.9 times head heights, apices spreading. Functionally staminate florets 3–6; corollas 1.1–1.6 mm. Cypselae mostly 1.5–2 mm.
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