leaves lanceolate, pungent-mucronate, straight, erect, close-set, convex-keeled and shining beneath, concave and woolly above, not gemmuliferous; heads very many-fl., solitary or 3–5 in a corymb, on longish, leafy, tomentose pedicels; inv. campanulate, the outer scales cobwebbed, with glabrous, acuminate-pungent points; the inner lanceolate, acute, radiating, mostly white. 1–2 f. high, slightly branched; branches long and simple, erect, curved, woolly. Leaves 2–3 lines long, precisely similar to those of M. pulcherrima. Heads 5 lines long, 4–5 in diam., 200-fl. Pappus purple-red.
