Plants 2–20 cm. Heads ± spheric, 3.5–5 mm diam. Receptacles obovoid, mostly 0.7–1 mm, heights 1.2–1.8 times diams. Pistillate pal-eae 8–12 in 2 series, longest 2–3 mm; wings prominent, not wither-ing, subapical, inflexed, ± obovate, plane to concave; bodies somewhat galeate, mainly chartaceous, cartilaginous medially, ± lanuginose. Staminate paleae mostly 1–3. Staminate corollas 1.2–1.9 mm, lobes 4(–5). Cypselae 1–1.5 mm, corolla scars in distal 1/4; pappi: staminate of 1–5, ± barbellulate bristles 1.7–2 mm.
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