plant 4–6 in. high, with spreading pubescent or minutely tomentose branchlets; leaves 3-nate, spreading or the upper more or less adpressed, 3/4–2 1/2 lin. long with the petiole, linear to subovate, puberulous and beset (sometimes densely) with long fine hairs, becoming glabrous; heads terminal, globose, about 1/3 in. in diam., 3–12-flowered, very hairy; pedicels 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, bracteate at the apex; bracts unequal, small or minute, the lateral pair 1/3– 1/2 as long as the 1/4– 3/4 lin. long middle one, linear, densely ciliate with long simple hairs; calyx-segments 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, densely covered on the back with long white spreading hairs, and beset on the inner face with much shorter gland-tipped hairs; corolla shorter than, equalling or rarely slightly exceeding the calyx, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, cylindric, 4-toothed, but appearing subtruncate at the top, puberulous outside; teeth very small, rounded; stamens shortly or much exserted, according to age; mature filaments about 1 lin. long, hairy; anthers 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, linear, minutely scabrous on the margins, spurless; ovary ellipsoid, acute, 1- (very rarely 2-) celled, glabrous; style much exserted, 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, stigma simple. null
