Shrub 40–100 cm high; branches diverging at 20–45º; stem wings entire, 1.4–3.3 mm wide. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 16–45 mm long, 6.5–16 mm wide, 2.1–3.4 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface moderately bullate; lanate hairs sparse to moderately dense on upper surface, moderately dense to dense on lower surface. Inflorescences spiciform, 33–75 mm long, 8–14 mm wide at anthesis, 2.8–5.8 times longer than wide; peduncles 5–25 mm long. Longest inner bracts 3.0–3.6 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 27–45; corolla 2.3–2.8 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 2.5–3.0 mm long; corolla lobes 0.25–0.5 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and eglandular trichomes absent. Achenes 0.5–0.7 mm long, with 0–25 or 25–50 twin hairs. Pappus 2.2–3.0 mm long.
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