Pilose, the slender white hairs mostly appressed, except about the nodes. Stems or simple ascending branches mostly about 8 to 15 cm. long, slender, sulcate, sparsely leafy, the internodes long. Heads terminal, about 1 era. broad, yellow, closely subtended by a pair of small leaves. Leaves sessile, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, lance-oblong, with narrowed base and acutely mucronate summit, entire, pale-green, minutely punctate against the light, the midrib stout, prominent beneath, the strongly ascending obscure secondaries about 3 on each side. Bracts hyaline with strong green midrib, 2 or 3 mm. long, broadly ovate, acuminate and very acute. Bract!ets 5 or (3 mm. long, hyaline below, yellow above, long-acuminate and acute, slightly exceeding the densely long-pilose sessile flower. Sepals narrow, nearly equal, distinct to near the base, long-acuminate and acute, rigid. Stamen-tube a little shorter than the perigone, narrow, narrowed upward, its ligules more than half the length of the oblong anthers, deeply cleft, the branches narrowly linear. Ovary subglobose, brown with a white crown. Style short, conic, about half as long as the 2 subulate obtuse yellow stigmas. Ixiamas, 1,000 feet, Martin Cardenas, December 14, 1921 (no. 1911). Ixiamas, 1,000 feet, Martin Cardenas, December 14, 1921 (no. 1911). Pilose, the slender white hairs mostly appressed, except about the nodes. Stems or simple ascending branches mostly about 8 to 15 cm. long, slender, sulcate, sparsely leafy, the internodes long. Heads terminal, about 1 era. broad, yellow, closely subtended by a pair of small leaves. Leaves sessile, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, lance-oblong, with narrowed base and acutely mucronate summit, entire, pale-green, minutely punctate against the light, the midrib stout, prominent beneath, the strongly ascending obscure secondaries about 3 on each side. Bracts hyaline with strong green midrib, 2 or 3 mm. long, broadly ovate, acuminate and very acute. Bract!ets 5 or (3 mm. long, hyaline below, yellow above, long-acuminate and acute, slightly exceeding the densely long-pilose sessile flower. Sepals narrow, nearly equal, distinct to near the base, long-acuminate and acute, rigid. Stamen-tube a little shorter than the perigone, narrow, narrowed upward, its ligules more than half the length of the oblong anthers, deeply cleft, the branches narrowly linear. Ovary subglobose, brown with a white crown. Style short, conic, about half as long as the 2 subulate obtuse yellow stigmas.General Information
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