Plants 1–15(–20) cm. Leaves mostly blunt, not or scarcely mucronate, longest 6–14 mm; largest capitular leaves spatulate to ± elliptic or oblong, 4–13 × 1.5–3 mm. Heads in dichasiform or proximally ± racemiform arrays, ± spheric, largest 3–6 mm, arachnoid to thinly lanuginose (often shiny, appearing nearly glabrous, indument obscured by palea wings). Phyllaries ± persistent, ± ovate, 1–3.5 mm, subequal. Receptacles narrowly cylindric, 1.3–2.2 mm, heights 5–8 times diams.; scars ± evenly distributed, slightly sunken. Pistillate paleae: longest 1.8–4.5 mm, winged proximally and distally; wings broadly ovate (bases rounded or cordate), widest in proximal 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies (except midnerves) chartaceous; outermost paleae ± saccate. Functionally staminate florets 2–5; ovaries vestigial, 0–0.2 mm; corollas 1–1.8 mm. Cypselae 0.8–1 mm, compressed; pappi: staminate of 1–5(–6) smooth to barbellulate bristles 1.3–1.9 mm. 2n = 28.
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