Shrub 50–80 cm high; branches diverging at 0–60º; stem wings entire, 1.0–2.5 mm wide. Leaves elliptic, 35–68 mm long, 13–31 mm wide, 2.0–2.7 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface moderately bullate; lanate hairs sparse on upper surface, very dense on lower surface. Inflorescences globose to ellipsoid, 12–15 (–19) mm long, 11–13 mm wide at anthesis, 1–1.2 (–1.5) times longer than wide, sometimes sessile and apparently axillary; peduncles 0–12 mm long. Longest inner bracts 4.5–5.0 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 7–14; corolla 2.7–3.2 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 3.3–4.0 mm long; corolla lobes 0.7–1.1 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and 1–5 eglandular trichomes per lobe. Achenes 0.8–0.9 mm long, with 25–50 twin hairs. Pappus 2.6–3.4 mm long.
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