Laxly branched shrublets, 0.4-0.6 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, adpressed, lanceolate to linear, 2-3(4) x 0.5 mm, simple, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes rudimentary or absent; axillary fascicles absent. Capitula in clusters of 2 to 12, at branch tips. Involucre narrowly oblong to narrowly obconical, 1.5-2.0 x 3-4 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent; outer bracts ovate, 0.5-1.0 mm long, margin and apex broadly scarious; middle bracts narrowly ovate to oblong, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margin broadly scarious, apex with a scarious appendage, yellowish brown; inner bracts oblong, 3.0-3.5 mm long, margins scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage. Florets ca. 4 to 6; limb 5-lobed from midpoint; lobes erect to recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales less than half the length of corolla tube.
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