Plants spreading, 0.6-2 × 0.5-4 dm. Stems glandular distally. Leaf blades spatulate to oblong or oblanceolate, 1-6 × 0.3-1.5 cm, margins ciliate, otherwise gla-brous. Inflorescences open to densely branched, 0.8-1.7 dm; bracts at first node 4-5, triangular to lanceolate, 2-10 × 0.5-4(-8) mm, with awn 0.5-1 mm, sparsely glandular, bracts at remaining nodes 3, forming an orbiculate to somewhat triangular perfoliate disk mostly 1-2.5 cm across, glabrous or glandular, with awn 1-3 mm, terminal bracts 0.5-2 × 0.1-0.4 mm, sometimes merely acerose, with awn 0.5-2 mm. Peduncles erect, stout, 0.3-0.8 mm at proximal nodes, sometimes absent. Involucres 2-5 mm, glabrous or sparsely glandular abaxially; teeth 4; awns reddish, 2-3 mm. Flowers 5-10; perianth white or yellowish green to pink, 1.5-2.5 mm, echinulate and sparsely glandular abaxially; tepals monomorphic, lanceolate to ovate; filaments 1-1.5 mm, papillate basally; anthers pink to red, oval, 0.2-0.5 mm. Achenes dark brown to maroon, 1.5-2 mm. 2n = 40.
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