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 Deciduous shrub to 1.5 m tall; stems densely pubescent with incipiently asymmetric T-shaped hairs. Leaves not seen. Capitula in corymbiform cymes on numerous abbreviated shoots axillary to previous year’s leaves; involucre obconic, 6-8 mm long; phyllaries 3-seriate, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, finely pubescent, distally glandular, the inner 6-7.7 mm long. Florets 7-15 per capitulum; corolla purple, 8.5 mm long, lobes 1.7-3 mm long. Achenes (immature) densely ascending-pubescent, glandular; outer pappus 1.3-2 mm long, inner pappus white, 6.5-7.5 mm long.