apparently about 4–9 in. high, laxly or compactly branched; branchlets puberulous to softly pubescent, reddish-brown; leaves usually 4-nate, but sometimes 3-nate on the same plant, erect to slightly spreading, imbricate to 1/4 as long as the internodes, 2/3–1 1/2 lin. long, linear or lanceolate, obtuse to acute, pubescent with spreading hairs to nearly glabrous, usually ciliate, and often with a tuft of 2–8 long hairs at the apex when young, often rugulose; flowers subsessile or minutely pedicellate, in globose terminal heads 2–2 1/2 lin. in diam.; bracts 0; calyx 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, narrowly obconic-oblong to obovoid-obconic, acutely 3–4-angled, 3–4-toothed, thin, ciliate with long white spreading hairs on the teeth and angles of the tube or the tube glabrous; teeth alternating with the angles, erect, 1/2– 2/3 as long as the tube, deltoid or deltoid-ovate to sublanceolate, acute or subobtuse; corolla 1–1 1/3 lin. long, the exserted part as long as or rather longer than the calyx, funnel-shaped at the upper 1/3– 1/2, then abruptly narrowed into a very slender (filiform) tube; lobes erect, broader than long, rounded when flattened out, but often with incurved margins and appearing deltoid-ovate and subacute; anthers exserted, basifixed, 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, narrowly oblong or slightly narrowed downwards, spurless; ovary glabrous; stigma simple. null
