(or better filiform) 1/2-3/4 mm wide, the inner depressed forming a groove on upper side; the lf-surface covered with depressed dots (esp. noticeable as fields). Heads small, solitary on short peduncles; fls yellow all tubular. Invol bracts few (prob 4 or 5) in one row distinctly yellow at tip. Receptacle naked (inconcspicuous). Fls, in the one head studied, 8, seemingly all ♀. Corolla 5-toothed. Calyces glabrous, possibly stalked with a definite petiole; qf thin, oblate, denticulate scales (mgh. 1 mm high). Cultures not failed.