Plants 2–9(–13) cm. Leaves broadly acute, mucronate, longest 6–13 mm; largest capitular leaves broadly oblanceolate to ± elliptic, 4–12 × 2–3.5 mm. Heads in dichasiform or proximally ± racemiform arrays, ± spheric, largest 4–5.5 × 3.5–5 mm, thickly lanuginose (dull, indument evident). Phyllaries ± persistent, elliptic to obovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, subequal. Receptacles clavate, 1.5–2.5 mm, heights 4–6 times diams.; scars ± evenly distributed, slightly sunken. Pistillate paleae: longest 2.5–3.5 mm, winged proximally and distally; wings elliptic to slightly obovate (bases acute), widest in median 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies (except midnerves) chartaceous; outermost paleae ± saccate. Functionally staminate florets 3–6; ovaries partially developed, (0.2–)0.3–0.6 mm; corollas 1–1.6 mm. Cypselae 0.8–1 mm, compressed; pappi: staminate of (5–)6–12(–13) barbellate bristles 1.4–1.8 mm (proximal barbs longer, spreading).
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