Annual (to perennial?), 50 (–?) cm high, branched. Anchor hairs 2-hooked. Peduncles 1–10 cm long; peduncular bracts 0–5, near capitulum, clearly separate from, or gradually transitioning into, involucral bracts. Capitula c. 8–20, 14–15 mm long and 13–14 mm wide at anthesis, 14–22 mm long and 12–18 mm wide in fruit. Involucre of c. 50 bracts in 2–3 outer and 2 inner rows, with outermost bracts wider and longest outer bracts only slightly shorter than inner bracts; outer involucral bracts straight, appressed, broadly obovate, lanceolate to linear, 9.0–17.0 mm long, 3.0–5.0 mm wide; margin with conspicuous, simple hairs mainly near base; midrib glabrous or with single line hairs of c. 0.5 mm long. Achenes including cuspis c. 5.5–8.0 mm long; cuspis c. 1.5–3.0 mm long, c. 1/4–1/3 of total achene length.
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