stems erect or ascending, glabrous; leaves arranged in pseudowhorls at the base of the peduncle, 2–5 in. long, bipinnately or more divided in the upper 1/2 or 1/3, glabrous or the young ones sometimes villous; ultimate segments cylindric, obtusely mucronate, about 1/2 lin. thick; heads numerous, paniculate or corymbose on a long common peduncle, far exserted from the leaves; peduncle 6–12 in. long, glabrous; primary branches up to 2 1/4 in. long, mostly several-headed, with a lanceolate acuminate acute bract 2–4 lin. long at the base of each; ultimate peduncles 4–6 lin. long, glabrous, not or scarcely bracteate; floral bracts purplish, about 3 lin. long and 1 1/2 lin. broad, with a suborbicular basal part and a thick midrib ending in a mucro, glabrous; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, soon splitting to the base; segments 3 1/4–4 lin. long, spathulate-linear, shortly adpressed-villous; limb. 1 lin. long, narrowly oblong, subacute, villous; anthers 3/4 lin. long, linear; ovary 1/2 lin. long, villous; style 3 1/4 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous; stigma 2/3 lin. long, oblong or subclavate, obtuse, slightly swollen at the junction with the style; fruit 1 lin. long, more or less ellipsoid, shortly beaked and stipitate, rusty-setose. null
