Subshrubs, to 12 cm (rounded). Stems yellowish, much branched, strigose. Leaf blades 1-or 3-nerved, linear, 15–30 × 1–4 mm, strigose. Peduncles to 25 mm. Involucres broadly cylindric, 8–10 × 8–10 mm. Phyllaries round to oblong, becoming scarious, appressed-hairy distally, apices rounded, ciliate. Paleae yellowish (often red-tipped), apices obtuse, erose. Ray florets 0 or 5–8; corollas yellow, laminae suborbiculate to ovate, 0–6(–9) mm. Disc florets ca. 20; corollas reddish, 5.5–6.2 mm, lobes 1 mm. Cypselae 7–8 (ray) or 3–6 mm (disc), 3-angled (ray) or compressed (disc), ribbed, distally ciliate or scabrellous; pappi usually of 2 or 3 equal or unequal awns. 2n = ca. 48, ca. 84.
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