Annual (?), c. 90–120 cm high, branched. Anchor hairs mainly 2-hooked. Peduncles 1–5 cm long; peduncular bracts absent or few near capitulum, clearly separate from involucral bracts. Capitula few (–10), 12 mm long and 10 mm wide at anthesis, 12–14 mm long and 10–12 mm wide in fruit. Involucre of c. 40 bracts in 3 outer and 2 inner rows, with longest outer bracts as long and wide as inner bracts; outer involucral bracts straight, appressed to squarrose, with distinctly recurved tips, lanceolate, c. 4.0–11.5 mm long, 1.0–2.0 mm wide; margin and midrib glabrous. Achenes including cuspis c. 6.0–7.5 mm long; cuspis c. 1.7–2.1 mm long, c. 1/4 of total achene length.
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