Perennial subshrub to 35 cm high, bisexual. Stems terete. Leaves sessile, linear to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 10–40 mm long, 0.4–3 mm wide, 13–25 times longer than broad, entire or rarely with a few small teeth, acute, not resinous; both surfaces sparsely to moderately densely covered with stalked or sessile glandular hairs. Capitula solitary, campanulate, 6–8 mm long; peduncles 30–140 mm long; outer involucral bracts densely glandular-hairy; inner bracts linear-lanceolate, 4.5–6 mm long, 0.15–0.5 (–0.6) mm wide, entire or slightly fimbriate distally, acute, glabrous on outer surface. Disc florets 35–100; corolla tube cylindrical, 4–5 mm long, deep pink; lobes 5, 0.5–0.7 mm long, glandular. Fertile achenes produced by all florets, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.65–1 mm long. Pappus bristles of marginal florets 8–11, 3.0–3.8 mm long.
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