Plants 1–8(–18) cm (branches ± leafless between proximal forks). Leaves ± acute, mucronate, longest 8–18 mm; largest capitular leaves elliptic to spatulate, 3–10 × 1–2 mm. Heads in strictly dichasiform arrays, ovoid, largest 3.5–5 × 2.5–4 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 2.8–3.3 mm, winged distally; wings oblanceolate to oblacrimate, widest in distal 1/3 of palea lengths; bodies cartilaginous; outermost paleae open, concave. Functionally staminate florets 2–5; ovaries ± vestigial, 0.1–0.3(–0.4) mm; corollas 1.1–1.7 mm (lobes usually 5). Cypselae 1.1–1.6 mm, obcompressed; pappi: staminate rarely 0, usually of 1–3 smooth bristles 1.1–1.5 mm.
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