Shrub 50–120 cm high; branches diverging at 0–80º; stem wings entire, 2.8–5.5 mm wide. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 25–92 mm long, 8–30 mm wide, 2.1–3.7 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface moderately bullate; lanate hairs sparse to moderately dense on upper surface, dense to very dense on lower surface. Inflorescences globose to broadly ellipsoid, (8–) 10–16 mm long, 10–14 mm wide at anthesis, (0.7–) 0.9–1.3 times longer than wide, sometimes sessile and apparently axillary; peduncles 0–11 mm long. Longest inner bracts 4.0–4.8 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 15–21; corolla 2.3–2.9 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 2.9–3.6 mm long; corolla lobes 0.8–1.2 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and 2–8 eglandular trichomes per lobe. Achenes 0.8–0.9 mm long, with 0–25 twin hairs. Pappus 2.1–3.0 mm long.
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