Woody perennial shrublet, 0.30-0.40 m tall; densely branched, branches stout, with stalked glands. Leaves cauline, alternate, 8.0-12.0 x 4.0-7.0 mm, trifid to bi-trifid, glandular-punctate, white felty when young, becoming glabrescent; stalked gland present; lobes narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 1.0-5.0 × ±1.0 mm, mucronate; mucro acute. Capitula radiate, heterogamous, ca. 15-20 mm in diam., solitary; peduncle 50-80 mm long at anthesis, sparsely pilose. Involucre hemispherical, 5.0-7.0 x 8.0-10.0 mm, white felty; involucre bracts 5-to 6-seriate, brownish along inner margins; outer bracts narrowly ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margins scarious; middle bracts narrowly oblong, 4.0-4.5 mm long, margins scarious; inner bracts narrowly oblong, 5.0-7.0 mm long, apical appendages broadly ovate, obtuse. Receptacle paleate. Paleae scarious, truncate, repand to slightly erosulate. Ray florets neuter, ca. 12 to 16; lamina 4-6 mm long, yellow. Disc florets bisexual, numerous, yellow, 5-lobed; lobes cucullate, with sessile glandular trichomes. Anthers slightly sagittate at base; apical appendages cordate. Style terete; branches linear, truncate, sweeping hairs apically-dorsally. Pappus uniseriate, scales 5. Cypselas unknown.
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