Heads have prominent terminal buds surrounded by short, loosely clustered branches. Bright to pale green or yellowish. Stem leaves are oblong to tongue-shaped with rounded tip. Rounded, dark brown to black capsules on short stalks. Cups are unbranched, round-toothed, and curled inward on margins.
Cups are greenish mineral-grey.
Cups are 0.5 to 1.5 cm tall. See next photo below. Clubs are yellowish or grey. Tips of clubs are red. Clubs are 1 to 2 cm tall.