stems ascending, much-branched; branches purplish, pubescent; leaves 3/4–1 in. long, pinnately or rarely bipinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous, the younger long-pilose with very weak hairs; ultimate segments 3 1/2–5 lin. long, filiform, furrowed on the upper surface, acutely mucronate; heads solitary, terminal, subsessile or very shortly pedunculate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, about 3/4 in. in diam., many-flowered; peduncle 2–4 lin. long, pilose, bearing linear-lanceolate acute glabrous purple bracts 2–3 lin. long; floral bracts 3 lin. long, ovate-anceolate, subacutely acuminate, concave, glabrous or very scantily pubescent, 5-nerved, ciliate; perianth-tube 3/4 lin. long, subglobose, glabrous; segments 4 3/4 lin. long, spathulate-linear, villous with spreading white hairs; limb 1 lin. long, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, acute, villous; anthers 3/4 lin. long; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, filiform; ovary 1/2 lin. long, globose, villous; style 4 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous, globose at the base; stigma 3/4 lin. long, cylindric, furrowed, obtuse. null
