Shrubby herb 0.5–1.5 m high; stems without wings, sparsely pilose, non-glandular.. Leaves sessile, obovate, 0.8–4.3 cm long, 0.6–2.2 cm wide, base attenuate, margins entire or with few (< 5) minute callose teeth, apex obtuse or acute, tomentellous to puberulous on both surfaces, sparsely glandular.. Capitula 5–9 mm long, in dense globose cymes in small leafy corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 2–11 mm long; phyllaries green or mauve with paler margins, multiseriate, lanceolate, 2–6.5 mm long, 0.4–1.2 mm wide, acute, thinly pubescent, ciliate distally on the inner ones, glandular; inner phyllaries deciduous after anthesis; receptacle concave.. Florets pink to dull purple; outer florets many, in several rows, tube filiform, 2.4–3.2 mm long; style 3.2–4.2 mm long with filiform branches; inner florets 4–7, tube 3.5–4 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long and sparsely glandular; anthers 1.5–1.7 mm long with minute tails and ovate distal appendages, style 4.4–5.2 mm long with short papillose branches, but sometimes with the branches closely parallel and then seeming undivided.. Achenes cylindrical and ribbed, 0.8–1 mm long, sparsely hairy, similar in inner and outer florets; pappus of white barbellate bristles 2–3.5 mm long.
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