main stem subterranean; leaf-bearing and flowering branches up to 4 in. long, prostrate; leaves 1 3/4–3 in. long, 3/4–1 3/4 lin. broad, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, long attenuated at the base, indistinctly veined, adpressedly hairy, soon glabrous; head sessile, 2 in. long, about 1 1/2 in. in diam. surrounded by the upper leaves; involucral bracts 6–7-seriate; outer ovate, produced into long foliaceous appendages, silky-pubescent; inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, silky-pubescent on the back, ciliate, equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 11 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled and 5–7-nerved below, membranous, rufo-pubescent to the middle, glabrous at the very base; lip 5 lin. long, 3-awned, glabrous below, excepting on the ciliate margin, then increasingly pubescent and ending in a woolly tuft; lateral awns 2 lin. long, linear, woolly; median awn 1 lin. long, linear, woolly; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/2 lin. long, swollen; anthers linear, 2 1/3 lin. long; apical glands 1/4 lin. long, ovate, subacute; ovary 2 lin. long, oblong-elliptic, covered with long reddish-brown hairs; style 11 lin. long, falcate, narrowing from the base upwards, flattened above, glabrous; stigma 2 1/2 lin. long, obtuse, finely channelled, almost imperceptibly passing into the style. null
