Paepalanthus lamarckii Kunth

Stems simple, 2-8 cm. long; leaves dull-or grayish-green, the older ones olivaceous, plane, linear-lanceolate or broadly linear, 1.3-3 cm. long, 0.5-2.3 mm. wide at the middle, ampliate-clasping at the base, narrowed to a rather acute or obtuse apex, many-striate, sparsely puberulent or pilose, soon glabrescent; pedun-cles fasciculate at the apex of the stem, 2-20 per plant, usually numerous, 1.5-7 cm. long; irregularly and more or less densely spreading-pilose; sheaths rather loose, 9-13 mm. long, long-pilose, the blade rather rigid, often lobed or bifid, attenuate and sharply acute at the apex, often somewhat spreading, long-ciliate, at first puberulent, eventually calvescent; heads dark brown, globose, 2-3 mm. in diam-eter, villous; involucral bractlets gray-brown, with-a lighter midrib, obovate, subacute and densely pilose at the apex; receptacle pilose; receptacular bractlets brown, with a white midrib, spatulate, acute at the apex, densely long-pilose above the middle on the back; staminate florets: sepals 3, stramineous at the base, dark brown at the apex (except for a broad white central band), spatulate, obtuse and ciliate at the apex; petal-tube stramineous; stamens 3; pistillate florets: sepals similar in color and texture to those of the staminate florets, obovate, pilose along the margins and at the apex, spreading; petals 3, tiny, white or hyaline, linear, blunt and sparsely ciliate at the apex; ovary 3-celled; style-appendages long and hyaline; stigmas 3, brown, shorter than the style-appendages; seeds slightly curved, cancellate.