stems slightly woody, procumbent, 1–2 ft. long, terete, pilose, much-branched; leaves ovate or obovate, very obtuse, mucronate, tapering into the petiole, entire, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 5 lin. wide, glabrous above, softly pilose beneath; heads in axillary and subterminal clusters of 2–3, ovoid, about 5 lin. in diam., spiny; bracts about 3 lin. long, lanceolate, pungent, finely denticulate in the upper part; bracteoles slightly shorter and narrower; perianth-segments slightly unequal, about 2 lin. long, the outer lanceolate-subulate, finely denticulate near the apex, the anticous elliptic, laciniate and shortly mucronate at the apex, the 2 inner smaller, concave, bearded on the back; filaments filiform; staminodes shorter than the filaments, triangular, acute, entire; utricle about 1/3 as long as the perianth, truncate or slightly bidentate at the apex; seed ovoid, compressed. null
