a small diffuse shrub; branches ascending, pilose when young, becoming glabrous; leaves 1–1 1/4 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous; ultimate segments 1/4– 1/2 in. long, terete, acutely mucronate; heads sessile, terminal, solitary, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, about 1/2 in. in diam., many-flowered; involucral bracts about 1/2 in. long, lanceolate, very acute, glabrous or nearly so, purplish; floral bracts 5 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, villous; perianth-tube 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 4 1/2 lin. long, villous with white spreading hairs; limb 1 1/3 lin. long, oblong-elliptic, subacute, the posticous one very minutely pubescent, the other three spread ingly long-villous; anthers 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales 1 1/4 lin. long, linear; ovary villous; style 5 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 3/4 lin. long, cylindric. null
