Perennials or subshrubs, 50–150 cm. Stems mostly sparsely puberulent (hairs upcurved or apically bent). Leaves opposite; petioles 0–5 mm; blades lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, (2–)3–6 × 0.8–2 cm, bases rounded, margins shallowly serrate to subentire, apices acute (not acuminate), abaxial faces eglandular or minutely gland-dotted, adaxial sparsely strigose to hispidulous. Involucres (3–)3.5–4 mm. Phyllaries: outermost ovate-elliptic to obovate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, puberulent, margins herbaceous, usually weakly ciliate. Corollas white, (2–)2.4–2.8 mm, lobes glandular. Cypselae 1.6–1.8 mm, sparsely hispidulous.
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