Plants 1–7(–10) cm. Leaves blunt, not mucronate, longest 5–9 mm; largest capitular leaves linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 2–5 × ± 1 mm. Heads in dichasiform or proximally racemiform arrays, ± ellipsoid, largest 2–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, thinly lanuginose. Phyllaries 0, vestigial, or falling, ± subulate, mostly 0.1–0.5 mm, unequal. Receptacles ± cylindric, 2–3 mm, heights 5–8 times diams.; scars concentrated proximally and distally, raised, peglike. Pistillate paleae: longest 2–2.7 mm, winged distally; wings oblanceolate to oblacrimate, widest in distal 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies cartilaginous; outermost paleae open, concave. Functionally staminate florets 2–4; ovaries vestigial, 0–0.1 mm; corollas 0.8–1.1 mm (lobes usually 4). Cypselae 0.7–1 mm, obcompressed; pappi: staminate 0 or of 1 smooth bristle 0.7–1 mm.
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