Plants 2–14(–20) cm. Leaves acute, mucronate, longest 8–20 mm; largest capitular leaves (some or all) subulate to lanceolate (widest in proximal 1/3), (7–)11–17 × 1.5–2.5 mm (distalmost mainly 1.5–2 times head heights). Heads in ± paniculiform to cymiform, rarely dichasiform arrays, ± spheric, largest 5–9 mm, thickly lanuginose. Phyllaries 0, vestigial, or falling, ± subulate, mostly 0.1–0.5 mm, unequal. Receptacles narrowly cylindric, 2–3 mm, heights 5–8 times diams.; scars ± evenly distributed, ± flat. Pistillate paleae: longest 3.4–4.5 mm, winged distally; wings elliptic to ovate, widest in distal 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies (except midnerves) chartaceous; outermost paleae ± saccate. Functionally staminate florets 3–6; ovaries vestigial, 0–0.3 mm; corollas 1.2–1.9 mm. Cypselae 1–1.4 mm, compressed; pappi: staminate of 2–5(–10) smooth to barbellulate bristles 1.1–2 mm. 2n = 28.
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