branches prostrate or ascending, purplish, glabrous or pubescent; leaves 1–2 1/2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half or third, glabrous; ultimate segments 2–5 lin. long, narrowly cylindric, subobtusely mucronate; heads numerous in a dense raceme or corymbose panicle on a common peduncle, enclosed by or only slightly exserted from the leaves, 6–8-flowered; peduncle up to 3/4 in. long, pubescent; ultimate peduncles very short and thick, up to 1 1/2 lin. long, with a solitary ovate-lanceolate purple glabrescent bract about 2 lin. long at the base of each; floral bracts 2 1/4–3 lin. long, ovate, acutely acuminate, at length recurved, pubescent; flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous; segments 3 1/4–4 lin. long, adpressed-tomentose; limb 2/3–1 1/4 lin. long, oblong-elliptic, subacute, tomentose; anthers 1/2–1 lin. long; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, filiform; ovary 1/2 lin. long, villous; style about 3 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 1/2 lin. long, subclavate, obtuse. null
