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A perennial herb about 6 in. high. Stem with spreading straight branches, more or less fleshy, shortly and densely pubescent. Leaves 1/3–1 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear or oblong-linear, acute, rounded at the base, with revolute ciliate margins, glabrous above, with some hairs on the under surface, especially on the prominent midrib; petiole 1/2 lin. long. Involucres terminal, about 3 1/2 lin. in diam., on peduncles up to 1 in. long, velvety, with 5 glands forming rounded glabrescent lobes, tuberculate on their upper surface, wavy at the margins. Ovary shortly pedicellate, tomentose; styles bifid. Capsule about 2 1/2 lin. in diam., tomentose. Seeds smooth, greyish-brown.