Plants 2–8(–11) cm. Leaves acute, mucronate, longest 6–15 mm; largest capitular leaves (all) ± elliptic to ± oblanceolate (widest in distal 2/3), 4–11 × 1–2.5 mm (distalmost mainly 0.8–1.2 times head heights). Heads in ± paniculiform to cymiform, rarely dichasiform, arrays, ± spheric, largest 5–6 mm, thickly lanuginose. Phyllaries 0, vestigial, or falling, ± subulate, mostly 0.1–0.5 mm, unequal. Receptacles cylindric, 1.4–2.7 mm, heights 4–7 times diams.; scars ± evenly distributed, mamillate. Pistillate paleae: longest 3.4–4.2 mm, winged distally; wings elliptic to ovate, widest in distal 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies cartilaginous; outermost paleae ± saccate. Functionally staminate florets 3–6; ovaries vestigial, 0–0.3 mm; corollas 1.1–2.3 mm. Cypselae 1–1.4 mm, obcompressed; pappi: staminate rarely 0, usually of 1–4(–8) smooth to barbellulate bristles 1.1–2 mm.
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