Perennial, entirely glabrous; branched caudex with rosettes from which sympodial leafy stems with terminal inflorescences and axillary few-leaved rosettes from which stems branched in the same mode. Stems procumbent, angulate, sulcate, at the nodes incrassate. Sheaths 1-3 mm long and broad with subulate thick coriaceous to 3 mm long appendages; petioles 2 by 0.1 cm, difficult to distinguish from the lamina; leaves with petiole 2-9 cm; lamina 4-7 mm broad, thick and stiff-coriaceous, narrow-cuneate-spathulate, apex with 1-5, mostly 3, obtuse, triangular teeth 3 by 1-2 mm; margin entire, subrecurved. Peduncles 5½-11 cm, ½-1½ mm thick, angulate, sulcate; involucres 10-12,5-10 by ½-1½ mm, lanceolate, acute or sub-obtuse; pedicels 20 or more, 2-4 mm, somewhat spreading, erect in fruit. Calyx teeth ¼-¾ mm, obtuse, persistent. Petals 1½-2 by 1 mm, oblong-ovate, inside white; styles 1½-2 mm. Mericarps to 3 by 2½ mm, dark violet or brownish.
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